Tuesday, August 14, 2012

When 1,099 Felons Vote In A Race Won By 312 Ballots

In the eyes of the Obama administration, most Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning editorial pages across the country, voter fraud is a problem that doesn't exist. Allegations of fraud, they say, are little more than pretexts conjured up by Republicans to justify voter ID laws designed to suppress Democratic turnout.

That argument becomes much harder to make after reading a discussion of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race in "Who's Counting?", a new book by conservative journalist John Fund and former Bush Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky. Although the authors cover the whole range of voter fraud issues, their chapter on Minnesota is enough to convince any skeptic that there are times when voter fraud not only exists but can be critical to the outcome of an important race.

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.

More @ Townhall

2 comments:

  1. The fraud peter shumlin won the election for Governor of Vermont by less than 200 votes, after polling 5-6% behind the Republican challenger for the entire race. The same fraud who is bringing the forced single payer system that makes Obamacare look like a good deal.

    James O'keefe showed that election fraud was very possible in Vermont and NH. New Hampshire passed voter ID laws. Vermont Demo-rat AG and thugs threatened to prosecute O'keefe.

    Sooner, rather than later, all this is going to end very badly.

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  2. all this is going to end very badly.

    Hopefully so for them.

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