Posted on 11/11/2008 7:27:14 PM PST by Gondring
Let's assume the 32 disputed ballots in Minneapolis were legitimate. Let's assume the newly discovered 100 votes in Pine County -- all for Al Franken -- were just overlooked by a sleepy official, and the 100 votes found in Mountain Iron -- again, all for Franken -- were valid.
Let's suppose the trickle of votes moving inexorably in Franken's direction is just a function of a normal process, as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's office assures us.
One fact remains troubling. The referee in Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race must act in a nonpartisan fashion, yet Ritchie came to office through a nationwide partisan strategy. He was elected in 2006 as part of a national campaign to ensure that Democrats could wield influence in precisely the sort of hair's breadth race we now have here.
Ritchie gained office with the help of the Secretary of State Project (SOS), an independent 527 group co-founded by former MoveOn.org leader James Rucker. SOS is based in San Francisco, and is funded in part by ultra-liberal kingmakers such as George Soros.
Why would Left Coast liberals take such a keen interest in a Minnesota state office?
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True North
http://www.looktruenorth.com/culture/330-dailyfisk/5745-shenanigans.html
Intrepid Strib reporter So let me see if I have this right:
You keep finding votes?
Election official Yup.
Intrepid Strib reporter and every single “found” vote is for Al Franken?
Election official Yup.
Intrepid Strib reporter Does this seem odd to you?
Election official Not at all, perfectly normal.
Intrepid Strib reporter I see. But the Coleman people and the right wing blogs are starting to get a bit concerned.
Election official They are quite partisan, right wing noise machine and all that. They should be ignored because they are just out to see Coleman elected. Pay them no mind.
Intrepid Strib reporter Ok sounds good to me.
Election official All rightie.
Intrepid Strib reporter So how many new special “found” Franken ballots have there been so far?
Election official About 500, we only need to find a couple hundred more... Oh wait! Don’t quote me on that last part!
Intrepid Strib reporter That’s cool.
Election official Thanks man.
Intrepid Strib reporter What are the chances of finding any new Coleman ballots?
Election official A snowballs chance in hell my friend.
Intrepid Strib reporter True dat.
Election official Is that all?
Intrepid Strib reporter Yeah pretty much, thanks for your time. I’ll write it up.
Election official Ooh look! Here’s another hundred Franken ballots in my closet! I forgot all about those!
Intrepid Strib reporter Imagine that.
I keep telling myself that it might become a dictatorship and keep asking myself if I'm crazy. But if you follow the facts, it points to at least an eight year virtual dictatorship.
Yes, I just got a donation request and will proceed forward.
Thanks for the reminder (to us all here....).
So you’re a liberal.
Yes...
...in the Classical sense.
But there were few of us at the polls. On the other hand, there were many Obama supporters.
I couldn’t stand it any longer and finally called the SOS of MN elections division. I wonder why they are counting ballots found in peoples cars after election and why those people aren’t in jail.
He (didn’t get name) said that because in MN the count is done at the Pct. level before the boxes are turned in, when the mail came in that day they had people going to all the Pcts. to get their ballots there to be counted. Some pcts. closed down becuase they didn’t have voters in line after 7pm then the mail in ballots didn’t get to the boxes and that is why they are found in peoples cars later.
my point is (but didn’t say to him at the time) if they didn’t get to the Pct in time, why arent the rules that you have to turn those ballots in to the county election office THAT NIGHT? Why aren’t these people who carried them around in their car for DAYS or weeks arrested?
All ballots should be in the counting office that night. you don’t take time to go to dinner, you don’t go to bed before the box is delivered with the count equal to the number of signatures and ballots before anything else is done.
This is ridiculous!!! Why didn’t the republicans work on voter fraud while they had power for a few short years. STUPID!
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