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.
Minnesota doesn’t register by party, so you can’t be talking about Minn for “higher percentage of registered Dems” voted. About 29 states do register by party — I have not seen data showing that their turnout was unusually high, or higher than GOP. In a couple of states that I have seen published data, it wasn’t so. Do you have a source??
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Here in MA all i would have to do is walk up to the person at the desk and say any name that is listed in her book of thousands of names of local registered voters.. As long as the name wasn’t checked off (like most of them) i could vote for whoever i want.
For years after my granny died i would still see her name listed in the book.
This is a crazy law that should be changed.
Why should it be too late? It’s illegal. It shouldn’t be about ‘the case’. It should be about the intent of the people.
I absolutely agree. If Coleman was ahead right now the left, and their friends in the media would be pulling out all stops to have the election invalidated and a run-off instituted.
right?? right???
I see they’ve copied the Chicago System, eh?
They already had the hearing. Can’t introduce it now. They should have bothered to check before.
It’s always been my understanding that they need all the fake ACORN registrations so that the number of votes do not exceed the number of people registered.
In my opinion vote fraud of any sort — even on the individual level — should be treated as a major offense bordering on Treason. Other forms of fraud are bad, but voter fraud cuts to the very heart of our systmen and our ideals.
A “who cares” attitude, no matter who benefits or doesn’t benefit, is VERY dangerous.
SAND IN THE GEARS BAY-BEEE!
So perfectly stated. Should become the meme. Well done.
“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.”
Especially in one county, in which 104% of registered voters went to the polls. Great work, ACORN.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people.”
But just enough to tip a close election, don’tcha know.
What makes you think dead people won’t also vote in a run-off election?
These people insisted they never VOTED in a primary!!
Oh. More fraud then. The criminals now have a death grip on the election process.
“Now extrapolate that into a nationwide number....”
I am willing to bet if this was done on the national level, today we would be reading about Miguel Estrada being nominated to the Supreme court rather tham Sotomayor.
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