Posted by
Duane Bolick on Friday, November 14, 2008 5:49:03 PM
Keep an eye on this one. It appears that the closely-contested Senate race in Minnesota between far-left court-jester Al Franken and Republican Senator Norm Coleman is getting weird. The initial election results put incumbent Sen. Coleman ahead by 725 votes, but since the final tally was within one-half of one percent, it triggered a recount.
Now, election officials have been tasked with double-checking their tallies before the official recount, and something strange has been going on... All the mistakes that are reported? They all come from liberal enclaves in MN, and they all, inexplicably, break 100% in favor of Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken, reducing Sen. Cole's lead to only 206. In fact,
WSJ has a great article about this - you should read it, but here are a few good ones from it:
In a normal audit, these mistakes could be expected to cut both ways.
Instead, nearly every "fix" has gone for Mr. Franken, in some cases
under strange circumstances.
And this:
Mr. Franken's gains so far are 2.5 times the corrections made for
Barack Obama in the state, and nearly three times the gains for
Democrats across Minnesota Congressional races. Mr. Lott notes that Mr.
Franken's "new" votes equal more than all the changes for all the
precincts in the entire state for the Presidential, Congressional and
statehouse races combined (482 votes).
And the clincher:
This entire process is being overseen by Democratic Secretary of
State Mark Ritchie ... an ally of the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, of fraudulent
voter-registration fame.
Everywhere ACORN and Democratic power are combined, there's the whiff of voter fraud. But no, no, they didn't cause it - in fact they condemn it! It just seems to inexplicably follow them around wherever they go.