"Doggone it, felons like me!"
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.
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There were many, many other instances of voter fraud, most perpetrated by the democrats during the “recount” that led to Coleman losing.
The biggest problem was, however, that Coleman is a loser and didn’t fight fire with fire.
He just rolled over and died even after he had legally won the election.
"Doggone it, felons like me!"
Ellison wants to ban photo ID as requirement for voting
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8SKGI6G1
Requiring photo IDs to vote in federal elections would be banned under legislation introduced Wednesday by Rep. Keith Ellison, who said such requirements disenfranchise minorities, the poor, women, elderly and young people.
“While photo IDs seem harmless, they are in fact the modern day poll tax,” Ellison, D-Minn., said in a statement.
Ellison, who serves on the Judiciary Committee, got an important backer for the bill, as the panel’s chairman, Michigan Democrat John Conyers, signed on a co-sponsor.
Ellison proposed the bill the day after the chief of the Justice Department’s voting rights division, John Tanner, apologized at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing for saying that aging is not a problem with black voters because they die before they become elderly. Ellison and other Democrats grilled Tanner at that hearing.
At a National Latino Congreso in Los Angeles earlier in the month, Tanner had discussed state laws that require photo identification for voting, saying that elderly voters disproportionately don’t have the proper IDs.
“That’s a shame, you know, creating problems for elderly persons just is not good under any circumstance,” Tanner said, according to video posted on YouTube. “Of course, that also ties into the racial aspect because our society is such that minorities don’t become elderly the way white people do. They die first.”
Tanner had also been criticized for clearing a Georgia law requiring voters to show government-issued photo IDs at the polls. A subsequent photo ID law was upheld by a federal judge last month, and the U.S. Supreme Court will consider Indiana’s photo ID law, which is similar to Georgia’s, this term.
Ellison noted that people do not need a photo ID to vote in Minnesota.
“In Minnesota we go to great lengths to make voting as inclusive as possible,” he said, arguing that has helped with voter turnout. But advocates of voter ID laws argue they’re needed to prevent voter fraud.
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said that requiring a voter ID helps preserve the integrity of the voting process.
“The right to vote is one of the most fundamental liberties we have as Americans,” he said. “And to protect that right, we must ensure that those who vote do so legally.”
“modern day poll tax,”
No, that would be if we made you pay to vote with a check and produce an ID to verify your check.
Watch a leftie’s head explode: ask them if they believe kids should be “forced” to show valid photo ID before purchasing cigarettes. Or does that “disenfrachise” them?
You need ID to fly to Chicago, cash your SOSH security check or buy a can of spray paint if you look too young. so...what’s the big deal? The only people opposed to a photo ID to vote are groups who would profit from the ease of ineligible voters(IE illegal aliens,felons,ect) being able to vote.
There are only two sides here: Those who want to stop fraud and those who will be irreparably harmed if the fraud is not allowed to continue.
I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!
He was a big winner in selecting a hot wife, however.
The Democrats are working out the bugs in preparation for massive voter fraud in 2012, which will be aided and abetted by the MSM.
Rather a catchy campaign slogan.
did I miss something — why are illegal votes even being counted?
So you are basically saying "screw you" to 50% of the voters because the other 50% are liberal idiots?
Good grief.
My apologies to the Conservatives..
It appears that you live in a state that is blatantly criminal in it’s election process, and if you do not want to see this theft take place again you need to get active in working to prevent it
It is bad enpough to live in a Democrat Machine State , but to live in a criminal machine state is much worse..
But is there really a difference? Is not every Democrat machine state a criminal state?
Again, my apologies to Conservatives who voted against this idiot.
You live in a criminal state and must work hard to change this.
Take a lesson to heart: Democrats will do ANYTHING to win. Anything!
The only reason the voting process isn’t as secure as the state lottery is because the politicians do not want it to be so.
It worked very well in Washington State in 2004. More ballots were "discovered" some 13 different times. Seattle is SO corrupt.
The three boxes of politics: the soap box, the ballot box and the cartridge box.
The extreme left MSM dominates the soap box.
Democrat voter fraud controls the ballot box.
All we have left is the cartridge box.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED.
Imagine my surprise.
Incredible
They wanted a liberal idiot, WE got one, is more like it.
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