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CALL ME AL: A new report on fraud suggests U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., potentially could have won his 2008 election with the assistance of non-citizen votes.
“If its not close, they can’t cheat”
Hat Tip to Hugh Hewitt.
VOTE!!!!
This article mentions the election fraud report prepared by the police in Milwaukee after the 2004 election that detailed the large number of non residents who likely voted in that election. Of course it was all brushed under the rug and the task force disbanded, or sent into retirement, when Police Chief Flynn came on board from Boston shortly thereafter.
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It’s not the margin of error that counts. It’s the margin of fraud.
Voter Fraud = Hanging Offense ,that would fix the problem
Why not? It got Kennedy elected (Mayor Daley) and has been an operating philosophy ever since the Republic began. If voting meant anything it would be illegal! I know, that's over the top but not a lot.
Voter fraud IS voter suppression.
“At this point, though, we can safely classify widespread voter fraud as a misperception — and one that is far more prevalent than the practice itself,” Nyhan wrote in a piece for the New York Times earlier this year.
What a weird statement. There is only one “globe” but hundreds of millions people believe there is global warming. If a sporting event game is “thrown”, it only happens once but thousands of people will probably suspect it. If a thousand ballots are dumped into a ballot box, that is one incidence of voter fraud but it affects 1000 votes. (Arguably, 1999 votes) That millions of people believe something exists has no bearing whatsoever on whether it does or not, and this scholarly opinion is no more than an entirely typical expression of scholarly ignorance based upon nothing.
Or if he is entirely correct, the qualifier “at this point” is another piece of weaseldom. Voter fraud is in many cases VERY difficult to prove. And by the way, the less ID required, the more the voting time window is opened up, the more machines vs paper ballots are used with unknowable computation & tallying methods and the more corrupt the system becomes, all the way to the very top, ever the more difficult voter fraud is and will remain very hard to prove.
Doesn’t matter if the Republicans get 70% of the vote because the Democrats will later find enough “misplaced” ballots to give them 71% of the vote. (70% + 71% = 141%). And the Republicans would never challange the outcome.
And suddenly Americans fear their electoral process at all levels has been undermined and compromised.
From 2009:
VOTE FRAUD: 2,812 Dead Voters
http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson/2009/06/04/minnesota-vote-fraud-2812-dead-voters/
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!
