Posted on 04/14/2009 5:50:09 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To list every single known irregularity [in the Minnesota election for Senate] might require a book at this point, but suffice it to say, there were plenty of them. To provide an overview, let's recount what went on early in the counting process, while a national audience was still paying somewhat close attention to the election. Ballots were discovered in an election judge's car and other votes appeared as if by magic across the state. One county discovered 100 new votes for Franken and blamed a clerical error. Another had vote tallies 177 higher than the total recorded on Election Day. Another county reported 133 fewer votes than its voting machines recorded. Almost every time new ballots materialized, or tallies were updated or corrected, Franken benefited.
The excellent research performed by John Lott, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, who exhaustively documented the countless logic-defying decisions used by officials during the original count and the recount process, threw light on many of the irregularities.
As Lott wrote, the morning after the election, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. As ACORN-aligned Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a former community organizer, presided over the process, over the next five days, Coleman's lead had dwindled to just 221. Election officials claimed they had to correct typos on vote tally sheets and that these corrections gave Franken 435 votes and took 69 away from Coleman.
Poof.
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Franken is a lying liar.
You mean Senator Franken is a lying liar, don't you?
I think Coleman has to keep fighting this no matter how slim his chances are. That's what the Democrats would do, and Pawlenty can keep from signing off on the election while appeals are ongoing. Franken's going to wind up there anyway, but he may throw a hissy fit and show people what he's really like in the interim.
We will have as our senatorial delegation Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken or as I like to call them the "Insane Clown Posse."
Stupid is as stupid votes.
This is what happens when an election is within the margin of theft.
As far as I’m concerned, I did not vote for Franken, and neither did the majority of voters in this state. ACORN and the leftist judges are stealing this seat.
We get this cr*p shoved down our throats and then have to deal with fellow FReepers calling us stupid. Nice.
Minnesota deserves Franken.
Not this Minnesotan.
That’s Frankenfurter, not Frankenstein.
Just don’t let your fellow FReepers call you ‘lazy.’ If you’re out and about DOING SOMETHING about vote-stealing in Minnesota, then you don’t deserve any abuse.
I’ve been active in politics since I’ve been able to crawl. No lazy here...:)
Thank you. The whole country is in big trouble. I have to say I am more than a little worried.
But, no, Franken himself, as he is, win or lose, is a lying liar. He stole and manufactured votes. Whether he wins or loses, he lied.
Good for you! More of us need to become active instead of just b!tching on FR. We got steamrolled last November precisely because not enough of us were active to avoid the nomination of another ‘more of the same’ candidate. NEVER AGAIN!
Coleman is a nice guy, and I've supported him since he was mayor, but this election was his to lose and he blew it. In the final run-up to the election he decided to ignore his screaming angry constituents and instead play "bipartisan" and vote FOR that first $750 billion bailout bill. (Remember that one? I know, last Fall was so long ago, and $750 billion seems like pocket change now.)
Conservatives who stuck to their principles, like Bachman and Kline, won easily. Coleman should have won this one in a walk, and before the bailout vote, he was going to. But after he voted for the bailout a lot of good conservatives I know decided to vote for Barkley in protest.
That's how come Coleman lost. There was a 3rd party candidate, Dean Barkley, who got the libertarians and the ronpaulites on his side and took 15%. That made the difference between Coleman and the unspeakable Al Franken close enough that the usual DFL ballot-box shenanigans were able to make the difference.
The lessons here are: a.) conservatives can only lose by running to the center, and b.) if it's not close, they can't cheat.
Without a uniform system of voting with pictured and verifiable IDs that insure a single vote we are in serious trouble. And military votes need to be counted even if the political body mails them too late to be counted. The ACORN ballot generators are empowered by their successes.
“The whole country is in big trouble.”
You said it! ACORN & CO. has a big business going stealing elections. Apparently, they were more than a little involved in seeing that Obama was elected.
The country’s name may just need to be changed to “Chicagoland” and be done with it.
Joe Stalin’s vote counters...
There is some truth in this. The Coleman team blew it by trusting their fate to the Courts. Conservatives will get no justice from the court system in this country. It's too politicized, dominated by liberal judges, liberal lawyers, liberal jury pools.
At every instance of impropriety on the part of the 'Rats, the Coleman camp should have been screaming bloody murder, in the public arena, in the media, on the floor of the state legislature and in Congress. That's what the 'Rats would have done, and it is what they do. And they get results. I'm tired of 'Pubs sitting back and playing the gentlemanly "good loser", because, at the end of the day, in politics, a "good loser" is just a loser.
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