Franken/Stein 2016!
Posted on 11/13/2008 8:31:16 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
You'd think Democrats would be content with last week's electoral rout. But judging from the odd doings in Minnesota, some in their party wouldn't mind adding to their jackpot by stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken.
AP Al Franken. When Minnesotans woke up last Wednesday, Republican Senator Norm Coleman led Mr. Franken by 725 votes. By that evening, he was ahead by only 477. As of yesterday, Mr. Coleman's margin stood at 206. This lopsided bleeding of Republican votes is passing strange considering that the official recount hasn't even begun. The vanishing Coleman vote came during a week in which election officials are obliged to double-check their initial results. Minnesota is required to do these audits, and it isn't unusual for officials to report that they transposed a number here or there. In a normal audit, these mistakes could be expected to cut both ways. Instead, nearly every "fix" has gone for Mr. Franken, in some cases under strange circumstances. For example, there was Friday night's announcement by Minneapolis's director of elections that she'd forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car. The Coleman campaign scrambled to get a county judge to halt the counting of these absentees, since it was impossible to prove their integrity 72 hours after the polls closed. The judge refused on grounds that she lacked jurisdiction.
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In Washington State, Gregoire learns from Gore's mistakes and manages to hijack the election from Rizzo.
Now, the repugnant troll, Stuart Smalley, is defying all laws of mathematical probability, discovering 500 or so votes to ZERO for Norm Coleman, before the sham known as the "recount" has even begun. They've dispatched with stealth and subterfuge. Now they're just sticking their middle finger in our faces and saying "Yeah sucker, what are you gonna do about it?"
Stalinism, pure and simple. Obama's Brave New World.
Who will fight back, and how?
The RATs will keep counting until they’re ahead. Just ask Mr. Rossi in Washington state.
Senator Franken. We had better get used to it because, my friends, they are stealing another one.
Never fear, Franken will come out the winner. All the Dems have to do is keep counting and magically the votes that will elect Franken will appear. /sarc
Even if all three of these outstanding seats go our way, the liberals will still have a filibuster proof senate when you account for the RINOs.
If the dems get to 60 votes, it will just be easier. It will provide political cover for the “conservative” dems to oppose legislation while the RINO senator’s votes take their place
I’m amazed that the a$$hat got 1 vote!
Let’s not go overboard with the Stalinism thing. The old chairman of the party did not need the pretense of stuffing the ballot box to win an election.
The best example of this kind of shennanigans was the 1948 senate Democrat primary race between Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson, in which Lyndon won by 87 votes. (In those days, Republicans were so marginalized in Texas that they didn’t matter. The Democrat party primary winner was essentially the election winner.) In the 1948 race, Lyndon was behind until a box of votes from a county in south Texas mysteriously appeared, all of which were votes for Lyndon Johnson (and, if my memory is correct, all the ballots were written using the same color pen). Eventually, the case went to the courts, which rejected doing anything, and then it went to the Democratic party central committee itself - and Lyndon won by one vote, 29-28.
If this had happened today to a Republican, the hue and cry about party hacks stealing the election would be loud enough to crack window panes across town.
On the other hand, it is apparently happening today with a Democrat in Minnesota, complete with the mysterious boxes of votes from rural counties, and the press shows an eerie silence. Just like the way the segregationists of old used to silence the Republicans in Texas, circa 1948.
Too bad I’m not in the media anymore. I’ve noticed how no one anywhere mentions that famous 1948 theft in relationship to the Franken-Coleman contest. *sigh*
Franken/Stein 2016!
And the sheep will take it and keep on going... not so much as an audible peep...
Actually Stalin did a version of ‘ballot stuffing’ at the 29th[?] Party Congress. The rumor that never went away is that Kirov got more votes than Uncle Joe. So a little conference was held in the back room and lo and behold, Stalin won. Kirov wound up dead shortly after, and Stalin used it as an excuse to launch the Great Terror. Most of the delegates to that Congress then also wound up dead.
Over half the country is under some kind of Spell. Or in a Trance. Or both.
The words “Honest” and “Democrat” parted ways a long, long time ago.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Oh — and this vote stealing crap has got to be stopped.
A modern, checkable voting system has to be installed, like this one: http://FreedomKeys.com/gabersystem.htm
Until then, heads have to roll before the crooks will even consider a pause.
The votes magically found in the trunk crap is beyond ludicrious. A federal investigation should be ordered and any foul-play should be met with felonious tampering. 6 years in prison might slow it down.
I hate to bring a little reality to this nice entry, but the fact is:
1) the count changes *every* election, from the time election night totals are announced, to the time the final vote is totaled and verified.
There has never been a state election (and not in MN, for sure) where the final election totals have stayed the same as election night. This is especially true now that absentee and early voting has been so prevalent.
So this is not unusual. And usually the outcome is so well-defined no one notices.
2) In Norm Coleman’s last MN election his final vote total changed (to his favor, by the way) by much more than Franken’s vote total has thus far changed.
It wasn’t as notable because the election was so close, but the change is no more suspicious than it was in the last election.
3) Because of the tight spread, MN mandates a recount. It will be supervised by its Republican leadership, including Gov. Pawlenty.
To accuse the fine state of Minnesota, and their election officials, of illegal behavior is just dishonorable, IMO.
Has Coleman received a single vote on this recount?
Has Coleman received a single vote on this recount?
“the case went to the courts, which rejected doing anything”
This seems to be the general attitude about voter fraud. It seems that even if someone gets caught in the act, there are no repercussions. I haven’t heard of anyone being prosecuted for voter fraud. The person with the votes in her trunk sounds like a good person to start with.
One of the reasons we weren’t treated to a President Gore were those fiesty Cuban-Americans who I recall stood in the way of Democrat functionaries trying to steal the Florida election in 2000. I’ll never forget that video footage of them talking back and taking a stand for a clean recount.
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