MINNESOTA VOTE FRAUD: 2,812 Dead Voters

Redstate ^ | 6/04/09 | James Richardson

[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.

[Free Vulcan]

They need to add that to the Freeper dictionary.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Just wait until Villaragosa runs for Governor. You aint seen nothing yet.

[popdonnelly]

Well, I guess Al Franken isn’t the Senator from Minnesota, then. Or am I being too logical?

Hey, remember when the Democrats said that every spoiled vote in Florida had to be counted? They won’t say anything about this obvious mess.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[bIlluminati]

There’s no claim that they voted, just that they were listed on the voter rolls.

Nope. The 2,812 are the ones who voted. The dead registered is higher than that.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

I’d bet that 90+% of dead people are pro-Franken.

[True Republican Patriot]

AND THEY ARE ALL DEMORATS AT THIS TIME!! IF thr Republicans tried to Vote a Felon or a dead Person, The RATS WOULD SCREAM BLOODY MURDER!! ACORN IS A HORRIBLE TRAVESTY OF FRAUD, EXTORTION, BLACKMAIL, DRUG DEALING, AND MOST PROBABLY MURDER!!

[Vigilanteman]

No certification from Pawlenty until all of the appeals are finished! (or there will be no support for him in the 2012 Primaries)

Did all eleven of his supporters tell you that or just a majority of six?

[wardaddy]

Would you have us believe that Minnesota's voter turn out was nearly 98% of eligible voters?

I did not know that...do you have a link?

[MaxMax]

Eliminating Voter Fraud effects Minority and Women voters, and
is racist and sexist.

[wardaddy]

I checked...not 98%, more like 78%

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=528838

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

If only it were that easy. Believe me, the screaming would start right here at FR the moment SCOTUS invalidated a State’s Election, and ordered a new contest. That would require unimpeachable proof that the election was so badly compromised as to be invalid; but so would every other issue and Candidate race on the ballot along with the Coleman-Franken race.

That’s an extremely tall order, and I don’t think it’s a new legal precedent that anyone on the Left or the Right wants to set.

And here you have the gist of why no court in the land will touch the Opossum "birth certificate" issue.

[dead]

And the next important data correlation ... the number of those dead voters voting for Franken. I’m betting it’s almost 100%.

It's impossible to correlate a name with who they voted for, unless it's a union election.

We're not there yet, but the Dems would love to have open ballot for us all.

[True Republican Patriot]

Chriisy Prissy Matthews and Mayor Street were bragging the night before the November 4th, 2004 Election on National T.V.(PMSNBC!) how Mayor STREET had $ 3-4 MILLION DOLLARS of “STREET MONEY” to GET OUT THE VOTE FOR KERRY! Mayor Street assured Matthews he would give KERRY a 400,000 VOTE PLUS VICTORY in Philadelphia NO MATTER HOW MUCH “STREET MONEY” was needed to accomplish the Objective. STREET DID IT! and KERRY only won Pennsylvania by 100,000 Votes! There are only 800,000 Alleged Legal Voters in PHILLY ,IF THAT! THANK ACORN AND AXELROD WITH STREET FOR THE KERRY FRAUDULENT VICTORY!:-(

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Coleman’s case before the court is that 4000 challenged votes should be counted.

[WOBBLY BOB]

And if you cut off a guys’s legs to get him to fit into the coffin, ACORN could have him vote twice!

[Spunky]

Why should Minnesota be any different than Washington State. The dead got to vote here and elected Gagwire.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[RandallFlagg]

Yeah. I miss that show.

[freekitty]

Thanks