Posted on 09/06/2025 8:11:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The voting process at the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party convention in July was such a mess that state DFL leadership investigated and nullified the local party’s endorsements. Now the Minneapolis DFL wants the state DFL to restore the results it nullified and give the endorsement back to DFL candidate Omar Fateh, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), KSTP Television reports.
Fateh is challenging incumbent DFL Mayor Jacob Frey, who came in second in the shady Minneapolis endorsement convention.
The Federalist previously reported that the Minnesota DFL’s Constitution, Bylaws and Rules Committee (CBRC) investigated the local convention and found the voting process had “substantial failures.”
The investigation revealed that the convention organizers undercounted 176 votes in the mayoral race. During voting, one candidate was “errantly eliminated from contention.” The digital spreadsheet used to count votes was left unsecured. The computer tallying results didn’t work properly, and the task of tallying results was switched to a different computer in the middle of the process. The creator of the results program left before results were counted. At some point the convention members decided to change their voting method from digital to “show of badges.”
With so many obvious breaches in election integrity, it looks like the convention was rigged. But the local DFL wants the state DFL to ignore all that its investigation found and hand Fateh an endorsement.
The state DFL barred Minneapolis DFL from conducting another 2025 mayoral endorsing convention and from endorsing a mayoral candidate in 2025. Minneapolis DFL is on probation for two years, and it must convince the state DFL that it can meet the “standard DFL principles and practices.”
The Federalist asked the state DFL if it would consider reinstating the local party’s endorsement but did not receive a response. It should not.
This is more than internal party squabbling. The endorsement matters because Minneapolis is so heavily Democrat that candidates who get the DFL endorsement usually win the election. While it is not required, it is common for DFL candidates who do not receive the party endorsement for a particular race to drop out. This means a handful of DFL delegates have more power deciding the election at the summer endorsement convention than the general public in the fall general election.
But the public will decide this race. When the state DFL nullified Fateh’s endorsement in August, it instructed Minneapolis DFL to give all five mayoral candidates access to the voter rolls, an advantage usually given only to the endorsed candidate.
If the Minneapolis DFL can’t see that the many anomalies in the endorsement convention election render the results useless, the party should never be left in charge of another election. Its credibility is shot.
The Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party should be embarrassed by its request to be released from the consequences of its shoddy election. Why not let the public decide between the five candidates, without the party’s hands on the race?
The Minnies and the Sammies are a perfect match. Thieves, liars, stealers and crooks.
It’s how Al Franken became a senator
OF COURSE, Northern Commieville [Minnesota] was the one state that didn’t vote for Reagan. Along with the District of Commies.
They also allow their black Sammie cops to murder white, Australian women. That isn’t good. Going full Sammie is not good for your state. The new MinniSammie African flag is a rag. The Cancel Culture Clubbers got out of control up there. Their Command Sergeant Ballerina non-combatant Governor taught them to Swan Lake instead of acting like Americans.
MinnieSoda is the only African Country left where we could send the Albrego Kid to operate his ACME Human trafficking and MS Coyote gig out of.
I remember that...
This happens all over. When you think an election is rigged, you are probably right.
Have all the white people left Minneapolis yet?
no matter who wins everyone looses.
Probably the best way to make elections fair again is to really focus on voting in big cities. Its massively corrupt in all of them. Not just Minneapolis. Chicago. Philadelphia voting tips the scales for Pennsylvania elections. If you get rid of the corruption, you’d add a lot of state and federal Republican officeholders.
Why not let the public decide between the five candidates, without the party’s hands on the race?
What good is a party if it doesn’t have any power?
The Democratic, or in this case Farm/Labor party was made to obtain power and use it for the benifit of the Party, particularly the Party leadership.
The DFL has held power in Minneapolis for more than four decades and will likely continue to regardless of who is running for mayor. The only difference is how fast the city continues its fall to perdition.
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