Dems Try To Steal Minnesota

Does Minnesota suck, or is the recent debacle there a case of the Democrats endless lust for power at any cost?

For a while my Democratic friends could legitimately debate that there were no party shenanigans taking place in the Minnesota Senatorial race between Norm Coleman and that lying liar, Stuart Smalley and that the election night results were rightly overturned on Monday by the Minnesota Canvassing Board, ("the five-member panel appointed and led by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who has been criticized for ties to the ACORN voter-registration organization the federal government is investigating for alleged vote fraud, as well as to left-wing billionaire George Soros.") But as the evidence grows it has become indisputable to anybody willing to openly investigate: the Democrats are trying to steal the state's senatorial election and their left leaning board will do nothing to stop it.

As Washington Times editor and writer Peter J. Parisi put it, “I predicted to everyone I knew that I could guaran-damn-tee that Franken would steal this thing, and it looks like I was right.”

The list of "questionable" facts grows faster than Barry Bond's head during a well-pumped season, as reported by The Wall Street Journal:

• More than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote.
• Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the Richie led board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.
• But the board has been inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken's campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had "lost" 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge -- officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night -- the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.
• Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he's benefited both ways from the board's inconsistency.
• The Franken campaign initially howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. Counties were supposed to review their absentees and create a list of those they believed were mistakenly rejected. Many Franken-leaning counties did so, submitting 1,350 ballots to include in the results. But many Coleman-leaning counties have yet to complete a re-examination. Despite this lack of uniformity, Mr. Ritchie's office nonetheless plowed through the incomplete pile of 1,350 absentees this weekend, padding Mr. Franken's edge by a further 176 votes.
• Both campaigns have also suggested that Mr. Ritchie's office made mistakes in tabulating votes that had been challenged by either of the campaigns. And the Canvassing Board appears to have applied inconsistent standards in how it decided some of these challenged votes -- in ways that, again on net, have favored Mr. Franken.
• Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, the man who was insisting on "counting every vote," is now insisting that the vote count stops.

There is little doubt what is happening.

The folk at Comment Cents have down a wonderful job of pulling together a number of excellent articles uncovering the double dealings by Minnesota Democrats. This is a must read for anybody interested in the truth and motivated to make a difference: MINNESOTA SENATE RACE - DIARY OF A THEFT

And make sure you check out the links, especially Newsmax's Anatomy of a Vote Grab.

And please, no comparisons to Bush whooping Gore in FLA. Every recount of the state's votes, including those performed by AP and The New York Times, verified that Dubya won the state by an even greater margin than was officially certified. Oh, and not that it matters but the U.S. Supreme Court did not give Bush the presidency, they simply ruled that the left-leaning Florida Supreme Court could not overturn the ruling of two lower courts and change election law after the election has taken place. It's common sense. Please have the courtesy to know your facts before you bring up tired nonsense.