So maybe some campaign sign placement doesn't seem so odd...
Posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:46 AM PDT by james.richardson
A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority.
After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results.
According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence of voting-age deceased residents to the secretary of state.
Presumably the commissioner of health would not issue incomplete reports (read: no motive), the blame then falls elsewhere – namely, at the feet of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, whose partisan leanings and curious alliance with vote fraud-magnet ACORN are becoming more salient by the day.
Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann argues the discrepancies unearthed by the group are merely the result of election workers updating the voter database with faulty information and were not instance of voter fraud.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people. You’re going to have human error,” he admitted.
But Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority, believes the situation to be far less benign – and legal – than the Ritchie’s staff is willing to admit.
“The first problem with their explanation is that there should not even be deceased individuals on the voter rolls. The second problem with the secretary of state’s explanation is that it basically acknowledges the lack of controls in the way in which voter history updates are being captured and recorded,” he said. Adding, “If the proper controls had been in place, this situation would not have occurred.”
Whether the peculiar case of 2,800+ deceased individuals casting ballots is a matter of fraud, human error, or resurrection is of little importance at the moment.
According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix.
When you’re down by such a slim margin, like Team Coleman knows all too well, every vote counts. When you live in a democracy, the very hallmark of which is fair and free elections, every vote should count. But when you live in Minnesota, where the chief election officer is a hyper-partisan louse, “every” vote counts, even after you’re dead!
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Cross-posted at Skepticians.com.
Lyndon B. Johnson had only 202 dead voters, all in alphabetical order in the same handwriting, in the 1948 Senate primary runoff with Coke Stevenson.
Have you noticed that it is usually a Democrat who smirks or shrugs his shoulders at voter fraud? Even though they came to favor “rule by the people”
Bet they were also among the dead that just received those Economic Recovery Stimulus Checks. And they probably cashed them too!
I’d also like to learn how many illegal immigrants signed up to vote via ACORN and voted Obama and Franken, etc.
During the follow-up of the election process, I read information that led me to believe this was the highest percentage rate of Democrat voters to registered Democrat voters ever. If that’s not true, then I’ve been operating under a false assumption. I’ll nose around a bit and see what I come up with.
The same plan Al Gore used in Florida, why does it work in Minnesota?
Blue state.
Our paper (the Pioneer Press) doesn’t even try to play fair any more. The other day they listed possible Republican & Democrat (DFL) candidates for governor. Each of the DFL types were accompanied by glowing descriptions like “champion of the people, fought for progressive causes, shining star, exciting new comer, experienced legislator, seasoned veteran.” Republicans were described as “partisan” 4 term senator, known for fiery speeches, obstructionist.
Well it certainly gives them more room.
I bet if you looked further, you’d find she voted for Obama.
And after all that practice they're really really good at it by now.
On a massive scale, this takes too many people to pull off. More likely that people on the inside would be the ones who could accomplish this in large numbers.
I do think there would need to be someone sweating it out in a back room, but it seems to me some study would have to be made to figure out who regularly doesn’t show up.
You could do it after the pools close, or before the polls close with willing accomplices.
It would be easier if it was after the polls close, but if there were Republicans around, the accomplice before the polls close would be the best bet IMO.
And ONE Democrat Senator provided the crucial winning vote that gave ACORN $1.4 BILLION. Which Senator? ....YOUR SENATOR. The one who wants re-election in 2010.
And WHO cast the deciding vote mandating a cover-up so that the public wouldn't know about it until it was too late? YOUR DEMOCRAT SENATOR, the one who wants re-election in 2010.
Despite all the GOP negativity, I'm telling you, 2010 is going to be a lot of fun for us. We can pin this tail on every Donkey.
Man, You have not lived in Chicago. It's easy as pie. The JUDGES in the precinct know exactly who didn't show up. It's the names on the voter roll that aren't checked off, so the judges then vote the ballots.
You have to understand.....these things happen in precincts that are essentially one-party precincts because the GOP is so intimidated that they can't provide judges. MOST precincts in Chicago do not have a Republican election judge available.
Why do you think they always have to "Hold the precinct open?" Why do you think they are so slow to report in these precincts? Why do these precincts always ask for more time? It isn't because the judges are that incredibly stupid,.......it's because they are corrupt.
When the GOP controlled Congress and WH they did not pursue this subject. In the computer age it is not hard to correlate information. They refused to rock the boat, and consequently the Dem racket got more bigger and more established. Now they are in power and with this slight edge in cheating, they can remain in power for a long long time.
Thanks for the mention. Not living there, I don’t see what you do.
Let’s remember that there were shenanigans in many other states this time too.
I agree.
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