Democrats Inch Ever Closer To Stealing Senatorial Election In Minnesota

After all of the legal votes were cast and counted, Norm Coleman was the victor of the Senatorial Election in Minnesota. Thus, the Democrats did what they did with Governor Gregoire in Washington State: they kept pursuing legal channels until enough votes were “found” to ensure the Democrat was the winner. Many of the votes that were “found” in Washington State were extremely questionable at best, but the State’s election board and the courts, both of which are highly controlled by the Democrats, sided with the Democrat candidate and thus, Gregoire was selected (not elected) to be Washington State’s Governor back in 2004.

The same thing is happening up in Minnesota right now. Even though Norm Coleman won the popular vote according to election boards who were entrusted with counting the votes and not counting the questionable votes, the Democrats are trying to get a foul-mouthed clown in Al Franken selected as the next Senator from Minnesota.

It is a slap in the face to Americans everywhere that the Democrats work so hard to usurp the electorial system in order to ensure their own power. Here is a brief history of how this election and recount (conducted by Democrats) has been playing out:

Will The Dems Steal The Senate Race In Minnesota?
84rules
November 7, 2008

Dems Inching Closer To Stealing The Minnesota Senate Race
84rules
November 10, 2008

Mischeif In MInnesota: Dems Working To Steal Senate Seat
84rules
November 12, 2008

Dems Still Trying To Steal Senate Seat In Minnesota
84rules
November 17, 2008

Al Franken Lawyered Up And Ready To Steal Senate Seat
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November 21, 2008

Here is the latest from Amanda Carpenter at Town Hall:

Franken is currently leading by a little more than 100 votes. This is the first time Franken has pulled ahead of Coleman in recount, which has been taking place for over a month. Minnesota’s powerful Canvassing Board is expected to finish counting all the disputed ballots by the Friday night. The board’s review of the disputed ballots, however, is not the last step in the recount. There are nearly 300 ballots left to examine. The Minnesota Supreme Court gave the board another assignment on Thursday by ruling that roughly 1,600 more ballots improperly rejected needed to be examined by the end of the month.

As you can see, the Canvassing Board (controlled by Democrats) and the courts (controlled by Democrats) are following the same exact strategy that their counterparts in Washington State used. Make rulings that favor the Democrat candidate until enough votes are “found” to have the Democrat declared the winner. Or, as Communist Josef Stalin once said: “It does not matter who casts the votes, it only matters who counts them.”

You also have to wonder: How many of these questionable votes that the Democrats “found” to be in favor of Al Franken were cast by people registered by ACORN?

Wake up, America. This may be our electorial future if we allow the Dems to continue stealing elections like they did in Washington State and are actively trying to do in Minnesota right now.

You can access Amanda Carpenter’s complete article on-line here:

Coleman Says Franken’s Lead is “Temporary”
Amanda Carpeter
TownHall.com
December 19, 2008

Al Franken Lawyered Up And Ready To Steal Minnesota Senate Seat

This is going to be the most closely watched recount in the history of the United States. And it is starting to look like the most blatent attempt to steal an election ever made by either party. Of course, I am referring to Al Franken’s Democrats.

He is all lawyered up and ready to steal the Minnesota Senate Seat by getting disqualified votes counted.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

[W]ho needs to worry about votes discovered in a car when the Franken campaign is now suing in court to steal the election? Minnesota this week began its official statewide recount, and Mr. Franken isn’t hanging on the outcome. Instead, he’s trying to conjure up enough other, previously disqualified, ballots to overturn Mr. Coleman’s 215-vote lead. The Democrat needs to invent votes because he knows it will be tough to win a normal recount. Minnesota uses optical scanning machines, which are far more accurate than the punchcard paper ballots of the 2000 Florida recount. Prior recounts in Minnesota have resulted in few vote changes. So off to court he goes, with Mr. Franken demanding that the state canvassing board delay certifying the initial election results. His campaign claims that absentee votes may have been wrongly rejected by election judges. Team Franken filed a lawsuit in Ramsey County (the state’s second largest, and an area Mr. Franken won decisively) demanding a list of these absentee voters, so that the Democrat can contact them, get them to declare their ex post facto preference, and, presto, he wins.

How many legitimate votes are going to be negated because of legal chicanery like this? One negated vote will be one too many.

The gubernatorial race in Washington State back in 2004 set a very bad precedent when the Democrats kept going back to the courts until enough votes had been “found” for Gregoire to win. The Minnesota Senate election is starting to look eerily similar and you can bet that once the Democrats have perfected this little scheme for stealing elections, it will happen alot more often on a much larger scale.

You can access the complete article on-line here:

Al Franken’s Minnesota
Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook
November 21, 2008

Dems Inch Closer To Stealing the Minnesota Senate Race

Didn’t I say this would happen? Was it really that hard to predict?

They are “finding” votes for Franken. And by “finding” I mean in very suspicious places and circumstances.

KSAX TV is reporting that 32 ballots turned up in a car owned by Minneapolis elections director Cynthia Reichert. That’s right, they just “turned up” with no rhyme or reason. Apparently, the ballots had been sitting in her car for several days and she apparently felt no reason whatsoever to report them until now.

Judge: New Ballots Will Be Counted In Senate Race
KSAX TV
November 10, 2008

The integrity of those ballots has clearly been compromised but they are going to be counted anyway.

Amanda Carpenter at Town Hall has some more about why this is turning out to be a very suspicious recount and why we should all be concerned about it:

Nearly every development of the Minnesota Senate recount between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and comedian-turned-candidate Al Franken has favored Franken. On Election Day, Coleman was 725 votes ahead of Franken. That margin was so slim it triggered a mandatory recount to be conducted by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D.). That edge winnowed to 477 on Wednesday, 338 on Thursday and then 221 on Friday. 100 of the votes that came in for Franken’s favor from Mountain Iron and St. Louis counties were time stamped on November 2—two days before the election. Ccunty election officials says the voting machines just had the wrong date, but Coleman’s staff doesn’t think they are legit. Every single one of the votes from these two counties went for Franken and Obama. “Obviously, this is highly suspicious. They found 100 votes, and it’s statistically impossible that all 100 votes went to the two Democrats, even in St. Louis County,” Coleman’s campaign manager Cullen Sheehan told the Star-Tribune.

For those who think that the questionable voter registration activities of ACORN are “no big deal,” reality shows us clearly that it is a very big deal.

Update On The MN Senate Race
Amanda Carpenter
TownHall.com
November 10, 2008

Will The Dems Steal The Senate Race In Minnesota?

It is starting to look like the Gubernatorial race in Washington State back in 2004. Remember that? The Dems kept taking the election results back to court until enough votes were “found” in order to give the Democrats the win. Dino Rossi was the declared winner until the third and final recount declared Christine Gregoire the winner. During the lawsuits of the recount prcess, the Dems were “finding” new votes everywhere, many of them questionable at best, but were allowed by Democrat-appointed judges who were overseeing the case.

Now, it looks like Al Franken and the Dems are going to do the same thing in Minnesota where Norm Coleman has apparently won the vote, but the recounts are starting to look eerily similar to the Washington State election in 2004.

Matthew Vadum at the American Spectator has some good information on how the Dems might pull off another Gregoire. It turns out that Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is a Democrat who has strong ties to ACORN and ACORN happened to have endorsed Al Franken in this election.

Let’s meet Mr. Ritchie:

From Matthew’s column:

Minnesota’s secretary of state isn’t a Democrat by happenstance. Ritchie, who defeated two-term incumbent Republican Mary Kiffmeyer in 2006, received an endorsement and financial assistance for his run from a below-the-radar non-federal “527″ group called the Secretary of State Project. The entity can accept unlimited financial contributions and doesn’t have to disclose them publicly until well after the election. The founders of the Secretary of State Project, which claims to advance “election protection” but only backs Democrats, religiously believe that right-leaning secretaries of state helped the GOP steal the presidential elections in Florida in 2000 (Katherine Harris) and in Ohio in 2004 (Ken Blackwell).

That already looks sinister enough. But it goes even deeper:

In the election on Tuesday, Ritchie said his office “received no reports whatsoever of fraudulent voting occurring,” but most news reports omitted the fact that a conservative watchdog group called Minnesota Majority repeatedly urged Ritchie to clean up the state’s voter data. The group urged “a thorough review and verification of all voter registration records.” Minnesota Majority claimed last month that there were thousands of irregularities in voter lists, including 261,000 duplicative registrations and 63,000 voters listing an address that the post office reported was “non-deliverable.” Ritchie was dismissive.

Of course he was dismissive. Would a Democrat actually look into voter fraud if such fraud seemed like it was going to help a Democrat win an election? Not in this lifetime. Look at how Gregoire was handed the Governorship of Washington State by Democrat-appointed judges who allowed very questionalble votes to be counted. Ritchie and Franken are probably looking at the very same plan right now.

And the media isn’t being completely forthcoming with the story either:

Most media reports also leave out the fact that Ritchie has extensive ties to the controversial in-your-face direct action group, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), whose employees have been implicated in electoral fraud time and time again. In 2006, the Minnesota ACORN Political Action Committee endorsed Ritchie and donated to his campaign. According to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, contributors to Ritchie’s campaign included liberal philanthropists George Soros, Drummond Pike, and Deborah Rappaport, along with veteran community organizer Heather Booth, a Saul Alinsky disciple who co-founded the Midwest Academy, a radical ACORN clone. One article on Ritchie’s 2006 campaign website brags about the fine work ACORN did in Florida to pass a constitutional amendment to raise that state’s minimum wage.

And the parting shot, that we should all take heed of:

As the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

You can access the complete article on-line here:

SOS In Minnesota
Matthew Vadum
The American Spectator
November 7, 2008

UPDATE: Apparently, Mr. Ritchie “found” another hundred votes for Franken. If he “finds” 300 more, he will declare Franken the winner.