Posted on 07/12/2010 11:03:39 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds
July 12, 2010 FoxNews.com
The six-month election recount that turned former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
That's the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes -- fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority's newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been "stonewalled."
The group was largely ignored when it turned over a list of hundreds of names to prosecutors in two of the state's largest counties, Ramsey and Hennepin, where fraud seemed to be the greatest.
A spokesman for both county attorneys' offices belittled the information, saying it was "just plain wrong" and full of errors.
"What we did this time is irrefutable," McGrath said. "We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists, where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand.
------------------------------ Revealing post from the comments section on the Fox site:
plignurpher Massachusetts
too late now suckers.
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM
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Is there a way to get him out of office based on this info?
That’s WHY Obama wants to WELCOME ILLEGALS!
Obama doesn’t vote any investigations into ODD voter patterns - like when MORE people VOTE in a country than there are people!
Minnesota got what they deserve. It shouldn’t have even been close enough to worry about.
They wanted a liberal idiot, they got one.
What I remember is every time Coleman WON, there was a recount and MORE ballots appeared out of no where till Franken won. It was so OBVIOUS as to what was going on. FRAUD IN THE OPEN.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
oh, geeze. the odds against the sunrise would have been greater.
You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: 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.”
How long and how far will americans endure those frauds and tyrany
You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: 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.”
Good quote!
Is it any wonder that the LEFT must rewrite history and leave statements like this OUT?
Can’t have the zombies THINKING, can we?
I’m sure Bambi got his share Too.
Excuse me.
I forgot.
I meant to say pleasure and entertainment zombies.
When the zombies are DISTCRATED by this, heck you can get away with anything because they are not THINKING.
They are too busy FEELING GOOD!
We are past the point of settling this with elections.
Ping!
And also why democrats want felons to be able to vote. Criminals voting for criminals; who da thunk it?
Duh? The recount put him over the top!!! The democrats are good at cheating on the recounts!!!!
way past....
Why are we surprised?
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