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The Face of Voter Fraud
In the ’08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.
Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman’s lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.
During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons — all ineligible to vote — who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.
Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted — not just accused, but convicted — of voting fraudulently in the Senate race. Another 66 are awaiting trial. “The numbers aren’t greater,” the authors say, “because the standard for convicting someone of voter fraud in Minnesota is that they must have been both ineligible, and ‘knowingly’ voted unlawfully.” The accused can get off by claiming not to have known they did anything wrong.
Still, that’s a total of 243 people either convicted of voter fraud or awaiting trial in an election that was decided by 312 votes. With 1,099 examples identified by Minnesota Majority, and with evidence suggesting that felons, when they do vote, strongly favor Democrats, it doesn’t require a leap to suggest there might one day be proof that Al Franken was elected on the strength of voter fraud.
Jack Daniels
August 7th, 2012
So?
In the end, will it be enough to have franken kicked out of office and cancel the vote that allowed obamacare?
If no…what the hell is the point then? We all know and have known for years the rampant voter fraud that is common place with democrats.
RANDO
August 7th, 2012
And why is this just now coming to light?
Toaster
August 7th, 2012
Best quote…
… and with evidence suggesting that felons, when they do vote, strongly favor Democrats…
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 7th, 2012
This is the kind of shit that makes me sick. Sick because justice is crippled by the corruption of liberal democrats.
The whole bunch of them are a big fraud in action.
LadyGun12
August 7th, 2012
This is not news. I knew he was a fraud from the outset.
ThisObamaNation
August 7th, 2012
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Stranded in Sonoma
August 7th, 2012
NO!!
Ignorance of the law is not a defense. If they’re a felon, then they are required to know that they cannot vote. And if they do, they’ve committed another crime. Period.
So, out of those 1,099 examples, how many do you think voted for Coleman?
Billy Fuster
August 7th, 2012
And this is why Pawlenty is a pussy.
bitterclinger
August 7th, 2012
Makes me even more sick of Coleman and his pansy-arse party for taking it. Why didn’t he bend over and ask for more? The GOP needs to borrow Sarah’s ovaries.
Unslung Hero
August 7th, 2012
What is it with Minnesota?? The water?? These people are nuts!
General Ripper
August 7th, 2012
“Unslung Hero
August 7th, 2012
What is it with Minnesota?? The water?? These people are nuts!
Thumb up 1 billion”
It’s because Minnesota is chock full of Dumb Swedes.
And this is coming from a guy whose last name ends in “holm”
mickey_moussaoui
August 7th, 2012
this proves minnesotans are not social drinkers