Dec 11, 2008 6:02 pm US/Central
Reality Check: Franken Absentee Voter Video
(WCCO)
It's not quite a campaign commercial but a six-minute video posted on
YouTube by the Al Franken Recount Campaign about the rejected absentee ballots.
The Franken Campaign went to court to get the names of absentee voters whose ballots were rejected, and then they contacted them. The group includes a Bloomington couple: the man, a quadriplegic and his wife is a blind stroke victim.
"We did everything right. We didn't do anything wrong," said the man in the video.
"I was shocked. I was shocked and really surprised," said his wife.
IN FACT...
About 288,000 absentee voters cast ballots in the November election. About 12,000 were rejected and a percentage of those may have been rejected improperly. However, the law says it's too late now.
Here's what you NEED TO KNOW.
Absentee ballots can be rejected for a number of reasons. The voter registration address or signature doesn't match the ones on the ballot, the voter's not actually registered or the voter already voted.
But the hard REALITY is this:
In a recount, Minnesota law allows only those votes that were actually cast to be counted. And rejected ballots were never counted in the first place.
So the Franken Campaign YouTube video is aimed at just five people: the State Canvassing Board, who will meet to discuss some of this on Friday.
That's Reality Check.
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