TEHRAN, Iran — Protesters battled police and shouted their opposition from the rooftops Sunday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest as little more than "passions after a soccer match” and brought huge crowds to a rally to defend his landslide re-election.
The scenes summed up the showdown over Friday’s disputed elections: a confident Ahmadinejad exerted control, while his rival Mir Hossein Mousavi showed no sign of backing down. With his wide network of young and middle-class backers, Mousavi could emerge as a leader for Iran’s liberal ranks and bring internal pressure on Ahmadinejad to take less confrontational policies toward the West.
In a news conference Sunday, Ahmadinejad called the level of violence "not important from my point of view” and likened it to the intensity after a soccer game.
"The election was a real and free one,” he said.
by the associated press
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Showing posts with label Recount. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recount. Show all posts
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Minnesota Candidate wants another RECOUNT !!!!!!
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Norm Coleman asked the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday to order the counting of at least 1,359 additional ballots and possibly thousands more in his U.S. Senate race or go so far as to throw out the election entirely.
In filing a brief to the court, Coleman said counties didn’t follow the same standard for determining how absentee ballots were accepted or rejected. He is seeking to overcome Democrat Al Franken’s lead of 312 votes after a recount and a trial.
The brief focused mainly on uncounted absentee ballots, arguing that the "evidence of disparate treatment cannot be ignored — no matter how expedient it may be to do precisely that.”
Coleman offered options for the court to consider, including reducing each candidate’s total in places where absentee votes were improperly allowed or throwing out the entire election.
"Minnesota law may not authorize this Court to require a new election, but neither does it require the Court to certify a winner if the record does not admit of one,” his lawyers wrote.
Coleman also asked the court to revisit what he described as counting irregularities during the recount. He previously sought to add more ballots after a recount gave Franken the lead and a trial court agreed to let 351 ballots in. But more of those went to Franken.
by the associated press
In filing a brief to the court, Coleman said counties didn’t follow the same standard for determining how absentee ballots were accepted or rejected. He is seeking to overcome Democrat Al Franken’s lead of 312 votes after a recount and a trial.
The brief focused mainly on uncounted absentee ballots, arguing that the "evidence of disparate treatment cannot be ignored — no matter how expedient it may be to do precisely that.”
Coleman offered options for the court to consider, including reducing each candidate’s total in places where absentee votes were improperly allowed or throwing out the entire election.
"Minnesota law may not authorize this Court to require a new election, but neither does it require the Court to certify a winner if the record does not admit of one,” his lawyers wrote.
Coleman also asked the court to revisit what he described as counting irregularities during the recount. He previously sought to add more ballots after a recount gave Franken the lead and a trial court agreed to let 351 ballots in. But more of those went to Franken.
by the associated press
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