Stealing the Minnesota Election

Currently, Senate Republican candidate Norm Coleman holds the lead over his Democrat contender Al Franken, but that lead has dropped from 725 to 206 in the past 11 days. Apperantly Minnesota election officials felt with the close race there needed to be a recount to assess for "typos" on these machine-read ballots. The Democratic Senatorial Campaing Committee (DSCC) is distributing email flyers asking for volunteers help recount MN ballots. Their mission? Taken from their website, DSSC's "Mission is to elect Democrats to the United States Senate. We are the largest organization solely dedicated to electing a Democratic Senate in the country. From grass-roots organizing to candidate recruitment to providing campaign funds for tight races, the DSCC is working hard all year, every year to increase the number of Democratic Senators." Their ad asks its members to act as recount volunteers and features a winking Sarah Palin, it states, "If you can count, we need you in Minnesota by November 16 for training." ;)

Hmmm, did I see ACORN's hand just go up???



Thus far, the recount has produced 450 new votes for Franken, and not a single new vote for Coleman. This Senate race in MN is a critical race for Republicans, because if Coleman can hold off Franken for the win in Minnesota, and Republcans win the 2 other close Senate races still being counted in AK and GA, then the Republicans will be able to at least have the numbers in the Senate to employ the filibuster option if needed to prevent what is shaping up to be the most liberal Congress and President in American history from executing their socialist agenda "ram plan" for the nation with out any checks or balances from an opposing party. George Washington warned of the dangers of a party system in his Farewell address to the nation, in which political parties could turn the government from a group of individuals interested in making decisions in the best interests of the future of the nation, into a group of politicians with a herd mentality - only acting in the interest of their parties furtherance.



Video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19DEneNnbk4

An economist and senior research scholar at University of Maryland, John Lott Jr, provided this analysis of the suspicious recount results-
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449334,00.html

I find it VERY interesting that the secretary of state himself, Mark Ritchie, has connections to ACORN and MoveOn.org. Once again, another road we see leading to ACORN and similar radical liberal leftist groups. ACORN, that same, supposed "non-partisan" charity group of "community organizers"(its “non-partisan” status allows it to receive taxpayer funding - which ACORN almost got away with a 20% cut of the $700-billion bailout bill this year in an original draft of the bailout bill – it would be interesting to know who submitted this earmark to the bill).

ACORN's claim to be "non-partisan" is a joke.


Acorn is now infamous for attempting to register hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms across America, and its ACORN chapters are under federal investigation in at least 14 states. Matthew Vadum, in his article “SOS in Minnosota” published in American Spectator, points out Sec . of State Mark Ritchie “extensive ties” to ACORN. In Ritchie’s 2006 campaign for Sec. of State, the Minnesota ACORN Political Action Committee endorsed Ritchie and donated to his campaign. Ritchie was also formerly a “community organizer himself. And, Ritchie also received financial “contributions from liberal philanthropists George Soros, Drummond Pike, and Deborah Rappaport, along with veteran community organizer Heather Booth, a Saul Alinsky disciple who co-founded the Midwest Academy, a radical ACORN clone.” Ritchie's 2006 campaign website “brags about the fine work ACORN did in Florida to pass a constitutional amendment to raise that state's minimum wage.” When complaint was filed by an conservative election fraud watch group who stated there were “261,000 duplicative registrations and 63,000 voters listing an address that the post office reported was ‘non-deliverable,’” Ritchie accused them of creating a “new level of desperateness” and attempting to cast doubt over the election outcome. But is it any wonder that conservatives should be concerned about liberals robbing the election when this election season we have seen ACORN brag about registering record numbers of new voters, only to find 400,000 of those 450,000 new voter applications had to be rejected, due to “duplicate registrations, fraudulent submissions, and incomplete forms.” Let’s see here, this year alone we have seen ACORN attempt to register Mickey Mouse in FL, a 7-yr old in CT, the entire starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys team, and a pizza delivery boy in OH who submitted 73 applications at ACORN workers bribing and pleading – the sheer arrogance displayed by the ACORN organization is astounding, yet they still receive federal funds and democrat politicians’ endorsement. I think it’s pretty obvious what ACORN is trying to do - they hope to at least get a few fraudulent forms slipped past election officials, but to do this they flood the elections official’s office with so many applications, fraudulent or not, to overwhelm the election offices, meanwhile ACORN and its liberal allies like Ritchie demand “that every vote count!” It’s all for the purpose of breaking down the system. It’s the same tactic their parent anti-capitalist organization, the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) used in the 60’s when they overwhelmed welfare offices in order to prove they couldn’t handle processing such an influx of dependant adults and therefore should ease eligibility requirements for welfare enrollment (Kurtz, NRO, 29MAY08). This “flooding tactic” worked in Ohio, when OH Sec. of State Brunner ran crying to the Supreme Court when ordered to review 200,000 suspicious applications, and Supreme Court justices essentially ruled, ‘Go ahead and cheat, Mrs. Brunner.’ ACORN tries to scapegoat the hundreds of thousands of fraudulent and invalid applications on a “few bad apples.” Few bad apples? It seems more like it would take an entire organization to cause this much damage. But that’s why they’re under investigation now.

But what is concerning in this MN case, is that it must be pointed out ACORN is clearly linked to Barack Obama and his far left liberal cronies. Not only did Barack Obama contribute $832,598 to ACORN. Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader and a member of ACORN’s National Association Board, discusses in an article he submitted to Social Policy magazine, ACORN’s involvement in assisting Obama in the 2004 election to the IL senate seat, in a record breaking landslide of 73% of the vote, and boosted Obama from obscurity to national fame after being tapped to deliver the keynote address at the Democrat Convention. Despite ACORN’s non-partisan status, his jubilation at getting one of their own elected to the IL senate seat could not be contained, he writes: “But in some elections we get to have our cake and eat it too: work on nonpartisan voter registration and GOTV, which also turns out to benefit the candidate that we hold dear.” ACORN is clearly serving its own self-interest in boosting liberal democrats, in this Obama, to power. A “win at any price” does seem to be ACORN’s philosophy. With connections like these, when we see Ritchie, who should be an impartial character, make public allegations that the Republican party is campaigning to “win at any price,” one must question if this lack of impartiality might be an indication of Ritchie and his liberal allies tactic to “win at any cost,” including using positions of public authority to throw the election.

With such a narrow margin of lead, and with the dramatic drop from 700 votes to 200, one can see how even 500 fraudulant votes supplied by ACORN or dishonest election officials, could throw the election towards the party attempting to steal the election.

"You ain't trying, if you ain't cheatin'!"


New Hampshire Ballotboxes Recount

Please reference:

NY Times - "Group’s Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated" - 24OCT2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24acorn.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

NRO - "Inside Obama's Acorn" - Stanley Kurtz, 29MAY2008
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

Social Policy - "Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign" - Toni Foulkes, Spring2004
http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=838

American Spectator - "SoS in Minnesota" - Matthew Vadum, 7NOV2008
http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota/

Minneapolis Star Tribue - Coleman vs. Franken: The Rematch - Curt Brown, 16NOV2008
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/34498659.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU

Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Website
http://www.dscc.org/

George Washington's Farewell Address
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/farewell/

For updates on where the MN senate race:

Minneapolis Star Tribune website
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/