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11.25.08 -- HELP US KEEP MINNESOTA 2008 FROM BECOMING FLORIDA 2000! -- With fewer than 200 votes now separating Minnesota Democrat Al Franken from embattled incumbent U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, it is now “almost a certainty” that Republicans will use the same tactics they employed in Florida in the wake of the 2000 presidential election to shutdown a recount that is slipping away from them. We need your help! NoVoterLeftBehind.net, which is accepting donations and volunteers to fight back against the GOP efforts to steal the 2008 Minnesota Senate seat.
NoVoterLeftBehind.net Executive Director Jennifer Petty said that the organization will fight to keep the vote recount going in its current stage and right on through the hand-off to a nonpartisan panel of five persons, who will convene to decide the fate of challenged ballots. With thousands of absentee ballots yet to be accounted for, Coleman’s steadily shrinking lead is now down to under 200 votes out of 2.9 million -- a margin of under seven-thousandths of 1 percent. Petty said: “NoVoterLeftBehind.net was founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the motto ‘No more 2000s!’ That battle cry for our group applies to both national and state-specific races. We know the kind of goon-squad tactics the Republicans used in 2000 to shut down the recount and deny the U.S. presidency to Al Gore. We need the help of concerned Democrats nationwide to make sure this doesn’t happen again in Minnesota.” Read the full November 25, 2008 news release here …
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