Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/felons-voting-illegally-franken-minnesota-study-finds/ ^

[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

[calex59]

What put him over the top was the recount of “found” ballots, in other words fake ballots planted during the recount. Every state should pass a law that disallows ballots found after the original count.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I am so shocked! Don’t forget the illegal aliens Obama is sucking up too for votes.

[presently no screen name]

It shouldn’t have even been close enough to worry about.

I don't see it that way. Perhaps it wasn't as close as they say. I hope they can do something about it.

[presently no screen name]

That’s it! Well said.

[boycott]

I think it should have been clear to everyone that seat in the senate was STOLEN. If it wasn’t stolen, obama and the democrats wouldn’t have been able to deliver obamacare against the will of the people.

[Rockiette]

Disgusting and I hope criminally prosecuted by the voters. There is no “time limit”’ against voter fraud but that is exactly what the leftoids want them to believe. Bite the bullet and bring charges to open this outrageous fraud. Find a prosecuter and make the charges stick. Harry Reid is going to pull the same thing in Nevada this November and are all Americans going to stand by and let him get away with it? Hope not...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

You Know The Drill
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Hey! FReepers!
Help Fill The Tank!
How About It? Huh?
It Ain't Askin' Too Much
Ya Know....

[crosshairs]

Minnesota got what they deserve. It shouldn’t have even been close enough to worry about.

They wanted a liberal idiot, they got one.

Unfortunately, we're all stuck with him. Kinda like dog shit. Can't get rid of the stink.

[nmh]

It's a kindred spirit that UNITES them.

One wears a suit to work and the other wears a jumpsuit.
Both have criminality - Demoncrats and criminals are perfect together.

[nmh]

“How long and how far will americans endure those frauds and tyrany?”

I don’t have a crystal ball but NOVEMBER elections will give us clues on where we are going.

[Venturer]

Yep: Next election you can.