Joe Soucheray: Recount stew cooked down to a horribly tainted end

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 01/07/2009 | Joe Soucheray

[rhema]

The Mayor tweaks the larcenous liberals again.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Do you have a better link? This one seems to be broken.

[Leisler]

It's not all bad. A clown for the Senate is rather fitting. Personally, I am waiting for when a Governor appoints a horse as Senator.

[PreciousLiberty]

The problem is, the folks who invented the recount process presumed that those doing the recount would a) be honest and b) do a careful tally.

Neither of those conditions hold, and every American should be taking notice.

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this —- who will count the votes, and how.” - Stalin

[Evil Slayer]

In Minnesota, a victory margin of less than one-half of 1 percent triggers a recount. That's ridiculous, because the process that followed resulted in even less than a one-half of 1 percent margin for the victor.

Just keep on recounting the recount. This could go on for ever. Maybe after 50 recounts, Minn might decide to hold another election.

[ought-six]

“Personally, I am waiting for when a Governor appoints a horse as Senator.”

The governor of New York is getting ready to do just that.

[Leisler]

Ouch. But funny.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Goes to prove that Democrats are such poor losers that they’ll do anything to force statistics and votes for a ‘win.’

I advocate a third party called the Patriot Party made up of Conservative, Traditional and Constitutionalist Voters.

[rlmorel]

I would challenge anyone to figure out which ballot below was charged or not charged to which candidate:

[rlmorel]

This is what liberals consider "fair". As it states, this is a real picture of the parties involved in investigating Sarah Palin in Alaska.

[Caleb1411]

Do you have a better link? This one seems to be broken.

This is the link to Joe's main page (and whatever his most current column is).

[Caleb1411]

The Mayor tweaks the larcenous liberals again.

And they'd never buy the coin flip. A fifty percent chance of winning isn't as good as the 100 percent chance they're assured of when they cheat.

[Caleb1411]

It's not all bad. A clown for the Senate is rather fitting. Personally, I am waiting for when a Governor appoints a horse as Senator.

In a state that elected Jesse Ventura, Governor Caligula could be on the horizon.

[saganite]

Despite the writer’s flippant (pun intended) attitude about resolving close elections, runoffs are the only good answer. Of course, Dems would howl bloody murder in this case because they know Coleman would win a runoff in a cakewalk without Barry’s coattails.

[arthurus]

I suspect this was the first ACORN election and elections will, over time- short time, more and more will be ACORN elections. The very number of prosecutions indicates that ACORN was involved in and may have decided many vote totals in November. American elections are coming more and more to resemble Venezuelan elections and will eventually look like Zimbabwe elections. It wouldn’t surprise me if Hussein or the Congress creates an Elections Fairness Board and staffs it with ACORN activists to oversee elections in the future.

[Egon]

Of course, Dems would howl bloody murder in this case because they know Coleman would win a runoff in a cakewalk without Barry’s coattails.

That's not the way it would have gone. The Independent very likely took more votes from Franken than Coleman.

[revtown]

Jesse did us good. I wish people would quit bashing him.
We had a split senate and house majority and Jesse as Gov..
So we had a 3 way tug of war for power. Nothing got done, it was great. Jesse did give us the budget surplus back as a refund instead of spending it and he cut taxes.

Jesse was no better or worse than any other Gov out there.
He’d of probably been better than Palenty in handling this recount.

[saganite]

I’m not well versed on Minnesota politics so I’ll take your word for it. Whoever won a runoff would be legitimate though. The margin of victory would be higher most likely and the victory wouldn’t be tainted.

[Rummyfan]

Now, of course, the Obama campaign can obviously encourage the strongest possible voter turnout, but when voting activists drag a net through the state and dump every possible human being who can fog a mirror and don't need much identification at the polling places or have them fill out absentee ballots, you are simply providing all the ingredients necessary to cook a recount stew that resulted in, well, the way it was supposed to result this time.

Quite simply we need to require PHOTO ID for voting. And no same-day registration and voting. And no provisional ballots for people too stupid to know where they are supposed to go and cast their ballots. Real citizens are being disenfranchised.