Comments on: Could Franken win? Coleman’s lead slips to 438 336 239 221 204 206 votes

By: Dave T

Dave T — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:11:43 +0000

Just because the Wall Street Journal repeated a lie, doesn’t make it true. I wish WSJ had checked their facts before writing that editorial.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:14:59 +0000

Wall Street journal, huh? That thing owned by Rupert Murdoch? What a shocker. With the number of lawyers involved for both sides (and the fact that the Sec of State is interested in fairness, unlike FL 2000) I am certain that there will be a clean, fair, accurate recount. Why can’t Normy and his pals live with that? The whole country had to live with FLs crap for 8 years.

By: John K

John K — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:13:57 +0000

As we all want voter participation to be available to all qualified voters, adequate controls must be enforced to preserve the integrity of the vote and ensure honest elections. An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal, Mischief in Minnesota, highlights the abuse of the current system in Minnesota. Safeguards must be imposed, enforced, and all voter fraud fully investigated and punished. Stealing elections is not good citizenship, if indeed you are even an eligible citizen.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:07:31 +0000

Bzzzt. Nice try Tommy. Can you provide even one single incident where a fraudulently registered by ACORN voter (note that I said earlier that they are often REQUIRED by state law to turn in even the registrations they know to be fraudulent) actually showed up to the polls and voted? Just one? Your argument is just BS, especially considering MNs same-day registration and voting laws. Anyone who registered on election day had to provide legit ID and you know it. Common sense says that numbers change from election night because the county election boards actually check and, get this, count the votes to make sure things are right.

By: Tommy Healy

Tommy Healy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:47:31 +0000

Registration fraud? That’s an amusing rationalization. Lets see, Al Franken is generating the votes needed to encroach on Coleman from just three precincts, half from one precinct in particular that experienced a deluge of same day registrations, that is to say, voters. Common sense would say that this seems like to good place to start an inquiry, right? Especially considering that Acorn, the liberal activist group that has more than a few voter fraud indictments and convictions under their belt, was very active in MN this year.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009189

By: Franken may pull this off....

Franken may pull this off.... — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:06:58 +0000

It’s now a two-hundred-and-four vote race.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:19:36 +0000

John K in the two comments that your name has popped up, I believe you have a good and genuine desire to see democracy work correctly.. It sounds like you want your democracy to work so that those who are entitled to vote be able to vote,

Before you erroneously believed that voting was related to having a paid up non-foreclosed place to live. Voting is not a Privilege offered, but an ABSOLUTE RIGHT guaranteed in a democracy for its citizens.

Now you state that Voter fraud must be controlled but what you describe is Registration Fraud. Totally different.. Voter Fraud or ELECTORAL FRAUD is rampant.. Registration Fraud is not.. (Former Bush Attorney General Gonzalez tried oftly hard to find that rampant fraud but failed… and he was forced to resign over firing 13 State Federal who couldn’t find Voter fraud, ie blocks of illegal non citizens who were voting enmass…) (Mickey Mouse and the dead person in the phone book that the lazy Acron worker signed up in order to get paid.. probably didn’t show up Tuesday to vote.. That is Registration Fraud..not Voter Fraud. If Mickey Mouse showed up to vote then yes that would be Voter Fraud…quessing not so much)

What there is RAMPANT ELECTORAL FRAUD in this country not by voters but by a few COMPANIES (Diebold & E&S) who control the software and the machines, who fail to maintain in good working condition, who refuse to allow government oversight, or public oversight, or have a failsafe system by which to cross check with paper ballots, or a print out. (Why should our democracy be within the control of the Urosevich brothers or the owners Diebold Machines who saw no conflict with working with BUsh reelection team in Ohio in 2004).

Electoral Fraud results from Failure of the machines, disappeared votes and ballots by the thousands, and this is what is a far more serious threat to democracy.

John K I believe you are a good guy…but be a little bit suspicious when you are asked to believe such things as voter rolls should be purged when someone has their house foreclosed or Misinformation is spread about the difference between Registration Fraud and Voter/ or worse Electoral Fraud…

By: Matt D

Matt D — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:11:15 +0000

And down to 221
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211556 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211335 41.98

GODDAMIT how does the SOS in MN not want this recount right f***ing now? Are they not curious too?

By: Matt D

Matt D — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:49:22 +0000

Back up to 238:
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211543 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211305 41.98

By: Kteratera

Kteratera — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:04:34 +0000

Just because the ballot machine takes in the ballot and tallies a vote for a certain candidate, DOES NOT mean it gave the vote to the correct candidate. It only means the computer thinks it was able to properly read the ballot. It then places a vote in the column it thinks is correct. The machines are tested before each election and any that are found to be faulty are not used. However, in a race this close it only takes a few flipped votes to change the outcome, which is where a hand recount would come into play.