Posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:46 AM PDT by james.richardson
A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority.
After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results.
According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence of voting-age deceased residents to the secretary of state.
Presumably the commissioner of health would not issue incomplete reports (read: no motive), the blame then falls elsewhere – namely, at the feet of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, whose partisan leanings and curious alliance with vote fraud-magnet ACORN are becoming more salient by the day.
Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann argues the discrepancies unearthed by the group are merely the result of election workers updating the voter database with faulty information and were not instance of voter fraud.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people. You’re going to have human error,” he admitted.
But Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority, believes the situation to be far less benign – and legal – than the Ritchie’s staff is willing to admit.
“The first problem with their explanation is that there should not even be deceased individuals on the voter rolls. The second problem with the secretary of state’s explanation is that it basically acknowledges the lack of controls in the way in which voter history updates are being captured and recorded,” he said. Adding, “If the proper controls had been in place, this situation would not have occurred.”
Whether the peculiar case of 2,800+ deceased individuals casting ballots is a matter of fraud, human error, or resurrection is of little importance at the moment.
According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix.
When you’re down by such a slim margin, like Team Coleman knows all too well, every vote counts. When you live in a democracy, the very hallmark of which is fair and free elections, every vote should count. But when you live in Minnesota, where the chief election officer is a hyper-partisan louse, “every” vote counts, even after you’re dead!
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Cross-posted at Skepticians.com.
“The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.”
If only it were that easy. Believe me, the screaming would start right here at FR the moment SCOTUS invalidated a State’s Election, and ordered a new contest. That would require unimpeachable proof that the election was so badly compromised as to be invalid; but so would every other issue and Candidate race on the ballot along with the Coleman-Franken race.
That’s an extremely tall order, and I don’t think it’s a new legal precedent that anyone on the Left or the Right wants to set.
At least not yet...
I’m pretty sure that Al Franken is going to be seated, and he will be Minnesota’s problem. Undeniably his vote will go to the Democrats, but at the same time, Al won’t have the luxury of sitting on his ass in the office while his lawyer does his talking for him. I think it will be a matter of time until Al reverts to character and becomes every bit the National embarrassment that I expect him to be. I know of several reporters who would be highly qualified to bait Franken into dropping an “F” bomb at a news conference...
I doubt very highly that Franken will be making many close personal friends in the Senate as a new Freshman...maybe he and Roland “Tombstone” Burris can share and office, since Neither of them has a snowball’s chance in hell of serving more than one term.
How many times has she voted since then?
My take on elections:
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” —opening lines of 101 Things To Do’Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe
“Voting” is working within the system. It is a Dagney Taggart thing as opposed to a John Galt thing.
No, it would be the Nation's problem as well as a National disgrace. I would like to say he would tarnish the office of US Senator, but it is too late for that.
Illegals ok’d to vote in Georgia....dead people voting in Minnesota.....and a “president” that can’t produce a birth certificate.It’s official.........we are now living in a third-world country!
I wonder how many governments would pass a Sarbanes-Oxeley audit. Not many, I’d bet!
That’s a huge control point.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if it were shown that 100% of these dead people voted for Stuart Smiley?!
You want to win elections. Eliminate voter fraud state by state.
Much more productive than sitting here on FR bitching about the end of the Republic.
Has anyone ever seen Jim Gelbmann in the same room as Baghdad Bob?
If 2800+ dead people, more than 6 times the margin of difference, are shown to have voted, that is not unimpeachable proof of a comprimised election? What the hell am I missing here?
I read at the time that the point of all the registrations is to make sure there are enough ballots printed up. Then, after the polls close, the crooked precincts get instructions as to how many votes are “needed” and they produce them.
Could they do any DNA like test on the ballots to see if an identical result can be found? Are all the dead voters from a certain area, buried in specific cemetaries etc....Time for scientist and sleuths to get involved.
You are from Pennsylvania, right? They may be using your mother’s vote for the Democrats there. Better see if you can get your mother’s name removed from the voting rolls there.
Have them settle it like gentlemen....pistols at dawn.
“According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix”
I don’t understand this statement.
I wouldn’t put about anything passed the Democrat party these days. That ACORN still as a functioning entity by this point, makes it perfectly clear that fraud and misuse of government funds is no longer a problem.
I just can’t understand how we got here.
I don't understand it either, mmanager. StarFan, as you said in another post... pinch me so I can wake up from this nightmare! :-(
Indiana has been successful with their laws...How are Georgia’s different?
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