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It’s Official: Franken Steals Senate Election

Filed on January 5th, 2009 in 2008 Election, Politics ⋅ ⋅

After nearly two months of speculation, it’s official — Al Franken has stolen the election from Norm Coleman in Minnesota.

The amazing thing isn’t that an election can be stolen so blatantly in this day and age, it’s that it can be done after everyone was told it is going to happen. Everyone in their right mind knew that Franken and his state official cronies from the Democratic party were planning on stealing the “recount”, but no one did a damn thing.

Where was Keith Olbermann on this one? You know damn well if the ‘R’ and ‘D’ were reversed on all of the main players in Minnesota, MSNBC and their friends would be all over Minneapolis like it was Wasilla, AK. But this didn’t involve a since defeated VP nominee, it was just an important Senate seat.

And when I say stolen, I don’t mean, “darn, the Democrat won after all,” I mean STOLEN.

For example, from the Wall Street Journal:

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

There are also inequalities in many other aspects of the recount. In two separate counties, recount vote totals differed from election night totals. In the case where less votes appeared in the recount, they went with the election night totals, which was a +46 for Franken. In the case where 133 additional ballots appeared in the recount, the board opted to include all of them, rather than the election night total like they did in the previous case, which resulted in a +37 for Franken.

The Wall Street Journal continued:

The question is how the board can certify a fair and accurate election result given these multiple recount problems. Yet that is precisely what the five members seem prepared to do when they meet today. Some members seem to have concluded that because one of the candidates will challenge the result in any event, why not get on with it and leave it to the courts? Mr. Coleman will certainly have grounds to contest the result in court, but he’ll be at a disadvantage given that courts are understandably reluctant to overrule a certified outcome.

To anyone who has been following this since election day, there is no doubt that not only did Franken do everything in his power to steal this election, but he had help from many friends in high places. This is one of the most obvious attempts at political theft in this generation.

Now, I know what many of you are thinking: what about George W. Bush in 2000? Good question. Well, the difference is that under any recount rules and models, Bush still won that election. At no point did Gore win. Not on election day, not in any recount. When multiple newspapers, including the Miami Herald and New York Times did their own recounts, Bush still won. In fact, his lead kept getting bigger.

In Minnesota, Coleman was declared the winner, and only by using slight-of-hand and political chicanery did Franken “win” the election.

I don’t care what your political affiliation is, you should be outraged. The day that a citizen of the United States sits back and supports this kind of election theft is the day that we have lost our place as the world’s greatest democratic nation. We live in a republic, and in doing so we should be above blatant election theft.

If you’ve ever (falsely) accused George W. Bush of stealing the 2000 election, or subsequently (even more falsely) the 2004 election, you have no right to sit back and watch this happen. What Al Franken and friends are doing in Minnesota is so much worse and obvious that no right-minded American should sit back and allow this to happen.

I’m sorry Minnesota, you are about to be wrongly represented, and your state will be much worse because of it. But I suppose that any state that puts Mark Ritchie in office only has itself to blame for its self-destruction.

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