Posted on 01/04/2009 10:28:36 PM PST by Steelfish
Funny Business in Minnesota In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken. Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor. Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on "counting every vote" wants to shut the process down. He's getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies. Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes. This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.
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I sent a strongly worded email to Pawlenty, but I fear we are screwed, and I told Pawlenty this as well. What can be done by him I’m not sure. I feel absolutely powerless. Will we survive for the next two years? Will people realize what they’ve done? Can it all be undone? Somehow I doubt it. My faith in my fellow Americans has come to an all-time low.
Washington States Governors race, 2004, King County.
History repeats itself and yet another election is stolen by Democrats.
They’re going to cheat their way to another victory.
Is anyone going to stop these guys?
The power of (D)
A bunt cake pan swung with force if filled with concrete makes a nice introduction.
That is the problem. No one is swinging pans on our side.
We are too worried about if “inteligent” design and its “skooling” and if you can keep your 13 year old from getting knocked up and aborting behind your back or what the hell ever.
Be parents!!! THE NANISTATEIFICATIONS IN CONSERVATISM SUCKS. Let me call it the Nazification, cause the other side has the brown shirts, SS (NEA) etc together.
We lose.
IDIOTS
Sorry for out luck.
I just don’t get any sense of outrage from this election theft in Minnesota. Maybe there is some outrage going on in Minnesota, but if there is, I just don’t see it. The situation reminds me of when Loretta Sanchez stole the election from Bob Dornan in California, and when Christine Gregoire stole the election from that Dino dude in Washington. Nobody freaked out. Somebody needs to freak out.
But I smell nothing but another GOP rollover here. Pathetic.
I pray that, someday, someone will stand up and take authority on the basis of what's right and legal.
I'm afraid your faith was seriously misplaced. A creepy POS like Franken would not have even been on the radar screen in this race back in the days when Americans still had some pride.
Sorry to break it to you, but “America” is dead and gone. What’s left is a land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them. It is not an America worth defending anymore.
Whatever. I just live here.
Every man for himself.
They are just daring us to call Frankin a cheater. He is that and slime bucket jerkoff as well. He has a temper and I am sure it will be on display.
Expect him to be arrested one of these days.
To me, the most grotesque outrage here is the including votes that appeared on election night, but not in the recount, in the final tally (result, +46 Franken). Where’s the credibility of a recount that doesn’t go by its own count? Duplicate votes and non-existant votes! “Any which way we can” seems to be the motto of Minnesota Rats. No surprise if Senate Repunks pitch in the towel soon; they mostly seem happy in the minority, seeing in politics a paycheck and a warm place to sleep. Some crappy thinktank will provide Coleman with as much.
Maybe we should try to recruit ol’ f.Christian to run for a Senate seat. We could use someone who can argue with Franken.
What these libpukes don’t understand is that valid elections are the sole alternative to politics through violence. By subverting the electoral process, they will force the violent alternative. And gee, who is going to win that fight, the feminized leftist “male”? I don’t think so...
I'm sorry to admit it but I fear you're correct in every detail.
This doesn't seem to be the same country I served and was so proud of in my younger years. It seems that I'm living a Rip-van-wrinkle type of life where I wake up and find out that I'm living in some third world country.
I've remembered a quote about the "enemy within" that goes:
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."...Cicero
I hope I am wrong on this but here is my take on this subject:
While millions of citizens are armed, our liberal (both parties, it doesn't matter)Governments at ALL levels have been arming themselves to the teeth with the most high-tech equipment they can buy with our tax money.
Even a very large group of citizens who attempt to reassert their Constitutional control over any level of Government will be put down by the thugs in police/Sheriff uniforms using the same equipment that allows our military warriors to succeed against overwhelming odds.
Do not think for a minute that many of the rank-and-file police would support our Constitution as the type of person that is now hired is totally beholden to the politicians that hire them as if they were not in a police uniform most of them would probably be behind bars, and they know it.
This new type of police officer has the kind of moral deficit the politicians want to make sure they hold citizens in check with the threat of arrest or violence.
Thanks for your kind reply!
That’s a very wise passage from Cicero.
I once read a book by Evan S. Connell called ‘Points for a Compass Rose’ and in it the author noted (something to the effect) that it is presumptious to expect any country to last more than a couple of hundred years. In retrospect, the nation’s founders would likely be astounded that their grand experiment lasted as long as it did. One of them (Jefferson?) prophesized that once people discovered that they could vote themselves other people’s money, that would be the beginning of the end.
Well, here we are. It was truly great while it lasted.
Exactly!!!
Count, and if you don’t like the results, count again.
As soon as you get the lead, shut down the counting and call anybody who questions it an idiot!!
Exactly!!!
Worked for Fraudoire!!!
Maybe we should check those judges’ bank accounts. Do I smell another Blago-style scandal?!
Yes, I wonder how much this ended up costing George Soros.
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