30 people charged with election fraud in Ramsey County (MN)

pioneer press ^ | 7-13-10 | jason hoppin

[WOBBLY BOB]

The Ramsey County attorney's office has charged 30 people with election fraud in connection with the 2008 general election, a top official there said Monday.

The charges are the result of an ongoing investigation that included 746 referrals, mostly from an election reform-minded conservative group, Minnesota Majority. The investigation currently occupies four taxpayer-funded staffers within the county attorney's office, with Phil Carruthers, director of the prosecutions division, saying he wants to add two or three part-time investigators.

"It's a huge project," Carruthers said.

The news surfaced after long-standing, and largely discredited, allegations that Minnesota's 2008 U.S. Senate election was tainted by fraud were renewed Monday by a Fox News online report and amplified by the state Republican Party.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Welcome to Frankenfraudville.

[Obadiah]

If Tim Pawlenty hadn’t been so eager to “reach across the aisle” he could have prevented the outcome of this fraud. Pawlenty was desperate to be seen as a moderate good guy and as such he gave the Coleman’s seat to Franken.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Not “largely discredited” any longer.
Is the Pioneer Press still in business ?

[Explodo]

And the local media will spend a fortune not reporting it...The story about felons voting franken in wasn’t reported in any of the main newspapers and was reported on only one TV news program(Channel 5).

Up here in left wing hell...they have an adversion to truth.

[STONEWALLS]

...there’s going to be a lot more of this....the Dems are making a push to win Secretary of State offices in all 50 states...it’s the Secty of State office that controls the elections.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Sort of, they are less broke than the Star & Sickle.

[Paladin2]

Those Acorns mature.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pawlenty is one less RINO to kick around...

[VRW Conspirator]

But he added that he hasn't seen anything to indicate there was any organized effort to steal the election...[county attorney] Phil Carruthers, director of the prosecutions division

So far.

[FormerACLUmember]

P*ssy cowardly Republicans let Franken blatantly steal the election.

[cripplecreek]

The secretary of state project has had an alarming amount of success because no one is paying attention.

http://www.secstateproject.org/

Just for kicks, check out the Wiki bio on Jocelyn Benson.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The news surfaced after long-standing, and largely discredited, allegations

Not by any credible source I'm aware of.

[bcsco]

The news surfaced after long-standing, and largely discredited, allegations that Minnesota's 2008 U.S. Senate election was tainted by fraud were renewed Monday by a Fox News online report and amplified by the state Republican Party.

I love this sentence. Long-standing and largely discredited allegations, yet here are 30 people being charged with election fraud in one county alone. Where were the MSM on this (besides being hell-bent on discrediting those allegations...)?

[Red_Devil 232]

"Ramsey County Elections Manager Joe Mansky ... also said some people may have been more determined to vote for Democrat Barack Obama given the historic nature of the race and overlooked election rules."

How PC of him!

[no dems]

If they should PROVE that Al Franken won the MN Senate seat through fraud, what can be done about it? Anything?

Somebody help me out here.

[Explodo]

Anyone else getting a dead link?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s my understanding that once the invalid votes had been cast they were indistinguishable from legitimate votes. It is good to be reminded that Franken would almost certainly not have been elected without chicanery.

[STONEWALLS]

...thanks Cripple Creek!...the whole Secty of State project is all about making sure the Dems round up new voters to keep them in power.

[Obadiah]

Nothing can be done. THe results of the election cannot be overturned by law. Franken is in now regardless of the fraud.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was discredited in the PP’s newsroom, evidently.