Comments on: WCCO and KSTP pick up MnIndy’s story about voter issues at Brian Coyle Center

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:15:21 +0000

Correction: The above should read: Yet, despite the fact that THERE ARE at least 20 million MORE American citizens eligible to vote as Democrats than Republicans. In 2004, there were about 55 million Republicans to 72 million Democrats. According to realclearpolitics.com, in the states where registration is tracked by party affiliation, this year about 700,000 more new voters registered as Democrats while the GOP lost about one million registered voters. How many more were registered in those states that did not track by party? Now ask yourselves, is this nation “split 50/50″? Or is it in fact a Democratic nation that has been suffering grand-scale theft of its franchise at the hands of the GOP?

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:08:10 +0000

Who in their right mind believes that anyone from the Franken campaign would do this? This has GOP dirty tricks written all over it.

We managed to overcome the GOP’s rigged elections and voter suppression tactics enough to elect Barack Obama and scores of other good Democrats this election. Yet, despite the fact that more than 20 million American citizens eligible to vote are Democrats than Republicans we still do not have the veto-proof majority in the Senate that we need to stop the obstructionism of the GOP. Why is that? Why is it that in 2006 we lost 20-30 seats that we were projected to win?

We may have overcome on Tuesday enough to elect Barack Obama and to make some more gains in the House and the Senate since 2006. But we still do not have a fair and honest election system in this country. Award-winning election fraud investigator for the BBC, Greg Palast, says that the raw data is coming in and it appears so far that about six million legal votes were stolen or suppressed.

This is a democracy?

I sincerely hope that this recount does happen because I have a suspicion that it may open the door to further investigation of these Republican-owned “voting machines” with secret, “proprietary” programming in use in this nation, thanks to the 2002 “Help America Vote Act” written by an indicted GOP congressman from Ohio Bob Ney.

Everyone should be urging their Secretaries of State to write better election laws, as our SOS Mark Ritchie and our legislature (thank you Bill Hinty) has done, in cooperation with election integrity activists (Mark Halvorsen). But even better, we should be working hard to rid ourselves of these machines because even though you have a paper ballot as we do here, or even a paper trail (touch screen machines), the votes are still being counted by Republican-owned electronic devices that are programmed in secret and “maintained” in secrecy by the manufacturers, and certified and approved by a Republican-dominated Elections Assistance Board.

By: Publiuuus

Publiuuus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:03:48 +0000

Who were the Republican challengers that called Mr. Wardere in? Who in the Coleman outfit told them to call Mr. Wardere in? Mr. Wardere himself did not seem to know his role that day. I hope that whatever comes out of this does not just come down on Mr. Wardere. There needs to be accountability in the local Coleman campaign leadership.

By: Stephanie Hill

Stephanie Hill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:04:17 +0000

Wait a minute. In the closest senate race in the nation, we are asked to believe that a campaign staffer for Senator Coleman was “on leave” or “on vacation” on ELECTION DAY??! I flatly disbelieve that. He was working for the campaign, just like every other staffer from every other campaign all across this great country. If you are on an election campaign staff, you just don’t take ELECTION DAY off.

By: Hmm

Hmm — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:57:50 +0000

Hmm… they’re saying the same thing was happening on the behalf of Franken? Oh well, I guess it’s a wash then. (kidding)

By: Molly Priesmeyer

Molly Priesmeyer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:40:39 +0000

Thanks, Mn Headhunter. I added the link and my response to the story above.

By: MN Headhunter | Paul DeBettignies

MN Headhunter | Paul DeBettignies — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:42:45 +0000

Channel 5 has a similar story this evening but they say that allegedly someone was doing the same on behalf of Al Franken.

Did you see any of this or did you hear about it?

Anyway, I am happy to hear County Attorney Freeman is looking into it.