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.
Other forms of fraud are bad, but voter fraud cuts to the very heart of our systmen and our ideals.
Yes, it has been our only recourse as citizens. Once it is corrupted, then what’s left?
“Yes, it has been our only recourse as citizens. Once it is corrupted, then what’s left?”
Look up Battle of Athens Tennessee
My question was rhetorical.
My mom was a girl living in Athens when this battle occurred and vividly remembers its aftermath. She and her family heard the gunshots and, of course, laid low until it was over. Those “boys” had just returned from the war and were justifiably fired up over the hometown corruption.
I seems to be a bit slow this am, missed the rhetorical.
Could use some of those boys these days
Photo I.D. and thumb prints should be required to vote.
We're living it, and probably will be from here on out. The Bush years were merely the time needed to tweak the system of cheating nationwide to perfection. Now that it's done, what's to stop them?
I agree.. RUN OFF ELECTION and Coleman will win in a landslide. It would be a great shot in the arm for the opposition. Is there any chance of this happening?
There are exactly TWO chances that the Minnesota legislature will call for a runoff election - slim and none, and slim just left town.
The Minnesota legislature, for reasons not clearly understood by outsiders, is largely dominated by the Democrat-Farmer-Labor party, ACORN at large.
ACORN is BIG in Minnesota, and is widely funded by various financial arms of Soros International.
Minnesota may never have a clean election again.
I presume the dead were Frankenvoters.
FYI: baghdad bob’s dead for some odd years (or is he?)
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