What's Happening In Minnesota?

Powerline ^ | November 7, 2008 | John Hinderaker

[Caleb1411]

Ping

[kauaiboy]

If Franken steals it, it will almost be worth it to see the IDIOT he makes of himself

His a TOTAL ass clown

[Verginius Rufus]

Lyndon Johnson’s 1948 primary victory, revisited.

[shankbear]

Minnesota is a cold commie enclave. The fix is in. The failed comedian will be the junior senator. The biggest joke is on all the doofasses that voted for him and on all those who didn’t bother to go out and vote against him.

[astyanax]

FURTHER UPDATE: The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this explanation: Reporter Mark Brunswick has talked to election officials for Mt. Iron and the county, and here's what they say: The precinct officials called in the correct results on Election Night: 506 for Franken, 211 for Coleman. But the county incorrectly wrote down 406 for Franken, 211 for Coleman. And that's what was reported to the Minnesota Secretary of State's office. Wednesday night, the Secretary of State website showed a 100-vote increase for Franken in Mt. Iron, Pct. 1. The Coleman camp's Cullen Sheehan says the timestamp on the ballot machine's vote total reads: "11/02/2008″ That's two days before the Nov. 4 election. A county official told Brunswick that the machine's clock must be incorrect. When they tested a machine in Mt. Iron Pct. 2 in late October, running test ballots through to make sure the machine was working properly, it also showed an incorrect date on the printout. And the printout from that Pct. 2 machine in Mt. Iron on Election Night, when it printed out the final vote tallies that remain unchanged, also shows an incorrect timestamp of Oct. 31. Several of these assertions are subject to verification. One thing I don't understand is why local officials called the results in to St. Louis County, which then wrote them down by hand. Precinct 1 in Mountain Iron, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State's web site, uses an optical scanner. So the results should have been uploaded electronically to St. Louis County. Is there some reason why that system was not functioning? So far, I've seen no explanation. Also, the tape that was printed off the optical scanner after the polls closed on November 4 should have been signed by the election judges, both a Republican and a Democrat. Did this happen? Obviously, the tape that was given to the Coleman campaign wasn't signed. But somewhere there should be a Republican election judge who can shed light on what happened.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Well in Florida in 2000, a large number of outraged Republicans stormed the offices of the vote counters. I don’t remember if it was Dade County or West Palm or somewhere else. But it was beautiful to watch.

They stopped the fraudulent activities that were going on there.

An angry mob of enraged Republicans is beautiful to watch.

[Sopater]

If you want to know how it's going to turn out, just look at the WA State Gubernatorial race in 2004. The script has already been written.

[Inspectorette]

Why is everyone surprised by this? ACORN did it successfully in 2004 in the Washington State gubernatorial race (Gregoire-Rossi), and they just did it here in Oregon in the US Senate Race (Merkley-Smith). They're getting better at it every time they successfully pull it off.

Needless to say, it's only going to get worse and more blatant, now that they're going to have an advocate in the White House :-(

[Bellflower]

What are we going to do about the massive cheating in this country?

[Enchante]

Here’s one thing I’ve wondered about: surely it should be possible to review the pattern of changes or “corrections” after the original vote totals were submitted and study them in comparison with the party affiliation of the officials involved etc.

It should not be the case that all of the “corrections” are favoring one candidate, right? If numerous precincts have “corrections” that all favor the Demagogue candidate then that should be a prima facie indication that something suspicious is going on....

[Seven Minute Maniac]

I know a lot of conservatives who voted for Barkley, the Independent candidate, in protest of Norm’s status as a moderate.

Not the right time, especially against such a Left-Wing loon like Al Franken

[San Jacinto]

Minnesota's Secretary of State, a left-wing activist who was elected in 2006 after MoveOn.org and other nationwide groups targeted the Minnesota Secretary of State race, has yet to certify vote totals

Such foresight. Apparently about to pay huge dividends.

[YOUGOTIT]

Typical of the Nazi Democrats when they steal elections which they do on a regular basis.

[Balding_Eagle]

As with the Governors race in the state of Washington a few years back, recounts will continue until Franken has enough to win.

[Tanniker Smith]

If Franken steals it, it will almost be worth it to see the IDIOT he makes of himself

Doubt he'll show up for work once he realizes how small he'll be as part of 100 -- and a new part.
He just wants to go on all the same shows with "Sen." in front of his name.

[little jeremiah]

Wasn’t it Thomas Jefferson who talked about the blood of patriots being the natural manure (term for compost/fertilizer in those days) of the Tree of Liberty?

Maybe he mentioned the blood of the tyrants as well.

I don’t see any other solution.

[MplsSteve]

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[dandiegirl]

To have this nitwit making decisions about our troops, economy and the hundreds of things the Senate votes on is just plain scary. In a way, the fact that he almost won, just about says it all for this election.

[SoDak]

This has already happened before. Thune Vs. Johnson in 2002. We went to bed and our guy is up significantly, then a boatload of votes show up from Indian country and Johnson wins. Funny how it’s always lib votes that show up the next day somehow.