Supreme court rejects MN Majority case against Ritchie
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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A lawsuit filed against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie by the conservative Minnesota Majority and a handful of Republican lawmakers and activists was dismissed by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday. The suit alleged that Ritchie did not keep voter rolls updated during the 2008 elections.
Bringing the suit were Minnesota Majority employees Jeffrey Davis and Daniel McGrath; Republican legislators Tom Emmer, Mark Buesgens and Matt Dean; chairman of the Minnesota Republican Liberty Caucus David FitzSimmons; self-described “Republican activist and campaign worker for about 25 years” Jean Sanford and Carver County Republican activist Cindy Pugh.
The Supreme Court said that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
“Here you have a major U.S. Senate race being decided by just a few hundred votes, and along comes our case citing the fact that the secretary of state has been unable to account for tens of thousands of voters in the 2008 election,” Minnesota Majority president Jeffrey Davis said in a press release. “You can see why the court might not want to touch this case with a 10-foot pole.”
But the court said the plaintiffs “neither describe nor identify any wrongful acts, omissions or errors of respondents concerning a specific election as required” by Minnesota statute. It added that they requested “no relief specific” to the 2008 election, noting that even if they had tied it to the election, the window for contesting the election has passed.
Ritchie praised the decision. “On behalf of all dedicated election officials who help administer the best election system in the country, I thank the Minnesota Supreme Court for its careful and judicious review of this lawsuit and its decision to dismiss it,” he said in a statement this on Thursday. “We agree with the court’s findings that Minnesota Majority neither described nor identified any wrongful acts, omissions or errors, and we concur with the court’s decision to reject the lawsuit.”
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Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 6:33 pm
Some people really don’t know when to quit. Or they really are just obstructionist and obnoxious, content to be an irritant rather than a constructive force in society. The Minnesota Majority (now THERE’s a compelling choice of name) fits the bill – jerks, one and all for their frivolous lawsuit.
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
If “They” don’t know when to quit it is becaue “They” recognize that we did not really experience a free election this time round. The laws have been changed and holes in the voting system have been opened up. I wonder, was that intentional? Buses arriving at colleges when only on campus voters should be there to vote?? Election officials unable to provide full and comprehensive lists? Voters going from one district to another and voting? Who are we kidding here? The voting system this time round made me wonder if we were in Iran, or some other repressed society pretending to be democratic. And when someone tries to do something about wbat they are seeing, the justice system refuses to administer justice. Now if this suite had been filed by Democrats, I am pretty sure it would be on the docket to be judged. What are we playing at here? If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it really fall? If an election is rigged and no one will allow the facts to be looked at, did we really have a free election? Should we bother to vote next time? Is is still “We the People” or is is only “We the liberals?”
Comment posted July 26, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
Funny, after months of a lot of high paid lawyering, no one could make anything worth presenting in court about all the terrible allegations the previous poster is trying to make. Maybe there’s nothing there…
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 8:17 am
Valora, who are you kidding here? If there was any evidence of that then why wasn’t it in the lawsuit? And why didn’t Coleman’s lawyers present evidence to the court? In fact, Coleman’s lawyers specifically said in their court filings that no fraud occurred. Yet people such as yourself keep repeating unsubstantiated allegations as if they were true. And comparing MN to Iran is just the icing on the cake.
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