Posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:46 AM PDT by james.richardson
A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority.
After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results.
According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence of voting-age deceased residents to the secretary of state.
Presumably the commissioner of health would not issue incomplete reports (read: no motive), the blame then falls elsewhere – namely, at the feet of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, whose partisan leanings and curious alliance with vote fraud-magnet ACORN are becoming more salient by the day.
Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann argues the discrepancies unearthed by the group are merely the result of election workers updating the voter database with faulty information and were not instance of voter fraud.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people. You’re going to have human error,” he admitted.
But Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority, believes the situation to be far less benign – and legal – than the Ritchie’s staff is willing to admit.
“The first problem with their explanation is that there should not even be deceased individuals on the voter rolls. The second problem with the secretary of state’s explanation is that it basically acknowledges the lack of controls in the way in which voter history updates are being captured and recorded,” he said. Adding, “If the proper controls had been in place, this situation would not have occurred.”
Whether the peculiar case of 2,800+ deceased individuals casting ballots is a matter of fraud, human error, or resurrection is of little importance at the moment.
According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix.
When you’re down by such a slim margin, like Team Coleman knows all too well, every vote counts. When you live in a democracy, the very hallmark of which is fair and free elections, every vote should count. But when you live in Minnesota, where the chief election officer is a hyper-partisan louse, “every” vote counts, even after you’re dead!
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Cross-posted at Skepticians.com.
Surprise! They all voted for Al Franken.
The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.
I SMELL ACORNS!......
Yeah right. Would you have us believe that Minnesota's voter turn out was nearly 98% of eligible voters? B.S. That's just not possible.
No certification from Pawlenty until all of the appeals are finished! (or there will be no support for him in the 2012 Primaries)
And the next important data correlation ... the number of those dead voters voting for Franken. I’m betting it’s almost 100%.
Now extrapolate that into a nationwide number....
“The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.”
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....with valid photo identification and actual physical presence at the polls.....
WTF! I'd say it's of major importance at any moment.
Well, that nixes that.
Would anybody care to take bets that they were all Dem?
And the FBI is down for their nap.
Here in New Jersey, a number of callers to a local radio station before the state primaries said they were surprised to find they were registered as Democrats when they had never done so themselves in the past.
I see a pattern here and I see ACORNS behind it!!!
Heck... I had 9 people listed as living at my house on the voter rolls in Boston... I’m the only one living there.
Glenn Beck is having an hour-long, in-depth special about ACORN on his show today. He’s been digging deeper into the history and recent activities of that criminal enterprise than anyone before.
Exactly right! For me that was a given when they started doing the Florida shuffle to find out who really won.
Just hold another election.
Remember that woman in NJ (was it?) who received a stimulus check for her father who died in Italy in the 60’s? Never had social security here or anything? Betcha, if you check, they got his name from the voter roles ... what do you bet?
Frankenfraud BUMP
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