Fraud Alleged In MN Senatorial Race

Incumbent Coleman has been declared the winner of the US Senatorial race by 210 votes (1,211,590 to 1,211,375). Although he has been officially declared the winner, there is a mandatory recount and the race is certainly in doubt.

Democratic voter fraud has been alleged as 232 ballots were discovered after election day, all in 3 counties, all found by Democrat party judges, all 232 votes were cast for Democrat Franken. Some of the ballots were “discovered” by the judge in his office desk, some were in the trunk of a judge’s car.

Personally, I find it odd that out of 232 ballots brought forth after such a close election, 100% were for 1 single candidate. As a MN newspaper puts it:

Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten has also written about her suspicions that the integrity of the voting process may have been compromised:

Let's assume the 32 disputed ballots in Minneapolis were legitimate. Let's assume the newly discovered 100 votes in Pine County -- all for Al Franken -- were just overlooked by a sleepy official, and the 100 votes found in Mountain Iron -- again, all for Franken -- were valid.

Let's suppose the trickle of votes moving inexorably in Franken's direction is just a function of a normal process, as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's office assures us.

One fact remains troubling. The referee in Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race must act in a nonpartisan fashion, yet Ritchie came to office through a nationwide partisan strategy. He was elected in 2006 as part of a national campaign to ensure that Democrats could wield influence in precisely the sort of hair's breadth race we now have here.

Ritchie gained office with the help of the Secretary of State Project (SOS), an independent 527 group co-founded by former MoveOn.org leader James Rucker. SOS is based in San Francisco, and is funded in part by ultra-liberal kingmakers such as George Soros.

Secretary of state positions are a "new front" in the "battle for political control," the paper explained, because they are "the obscure but vital state offices that determine who votes and how those votes are counted."

"National Democratic groups ... are pouring resources" into secretary of state races in key swing states, in order to enhance their control in future tight elections, said the paper. Minnesota was one of the top six states targeted.

 

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/few-notes-on-media.html

 

Very weird, but at the same time if you are going to remove somebodies ballots so they aren't counted, you are only going to grab theirs, correct? For instance, if you didn't want Franken to win, you would "misplace" all Franken ballots right? The same if you were for Coleman. So when found, if it was fraud, I would expect them to all have the same canidate on them. If it was an accident, such as leaving them in the trunk of a car, I would not.

 

It also seems to me that any ballots "discovered" late do not count.

Where's ACORN when you need them???

 

I say do-over.

 

If you also recall, several of the Gregoire votes were people who had died years before. Since those "spoiled" ballots were found in the boxes of late discovered ballots (after the election was over), the republican asked a democrat judge to throw out all those boxes of ballots. Not too surprising, the democrat judge said no, only the votes of the dead people will be tossed and the rest was history.

 

From a statistical standpoint, the comeback in the vote count by Franken seems suspect.

 

What, the 100 extra votes found for Franken, but not for anyone else on the ballot, in Iron Mountain, MN, sounds suspicious to you?

 

Because any change in the vote count appears to be going overwhelmingly for Franken. In an election this close, you would expect it to be more split.

 

Also, out of 332 votes found by Democrat judges after the elction was closed, 100% of them were for Franken. That's quite a coincidence.

 

My typo. It was 232. I'll always trust you to find my typos.