“Al Franken is about to be elevated to the U.S. Senate as a result of funny business. Twenty-five precincts in Minnesota have recorded more votes cast than voters on Election Day. Ramsey County alone has 177 more ballots than people who voted. The vast majority of these over-votes have gone to Franken. In parts of the state, military ballots were not counted. Any ballot that was challenged was copied for review. But, in many cases, the election canvassers forgot to label the copy as a duplicate, so it was counted twice. So not only were the disputed ballots counted, they were counted twice!” — Dick Morris
It’s amazing to me that Dick Morris, dedicating only a small slice of his time from the comfort of the Fox News Studio, and with no access to ballots or raw data, was able to discover these mistakes so easily, make the complex statistical calculations necessary, and thereby prove conclusively that the election was a fraud.
Those Minnesota elections officials focused full-time on this issue with full access to ballots and voting materials must feel really stupid after reading Dick Morris’ deep, insightful analysis of this complex issue.
There is ample evidence that journalists and talking heads spout all kinds of nonsense a great deal of the time. I prefer going to “on location sources” whenever possible. In this situation, I think that the guys at Powerline.com (Minn residents) have followed this quite closely and have provided accurate information about “the situation on the ground.” True they are partisan, but I consider them to be fair and honest; there are such individuals on both sides of the aisle. Based on their reporting my conclusion is that Franken will be the senator based on results that could easily be either somewhat honest to downright dishonest. There is a lawsuit pending so this drama will continue.
What really amazes me is that after all the election controversies, national, state, and local; would one think that the voting and tabulating process would be completely ironed out by now to avoid messes like this one.
Yep…with that said, I dislike it when politicians go to the courts. Coleman should just concede and take the higher road.
Protesting when you lose is by far a Democrat thing, see here, and Republicans should stay clear from it.
Al Gore conceding the election even it was obvious that there was fraud?
He lost anyway, didn’t he?
Fraud can usually be claimed on both sides. Its never as clear cut as one thinks it is. Most of the time, if it has to go to the courts, it’s already a lost cause anyway. The more gentlemanly thing to do is concede and try better next time.
Democrats are no more pre-disposed to throw temper tantrums after losing elections than are Republicans. Likewise - contrary to the recent claims by Democrats - Republicans are no more likely to be corrupt than are Democrats.
These are both nothing more than strategical attempts by one party to propagandize and gain votes by assigning some deep flaw to their opponent. Two years from now, or ten years from now, or twenty years from now, when the Democrats have enough power to abuse, or when the Republicans are losing close elections under shaky circumstances, the roles will be reversed.
It has nothing to do with the faulty philosophy of Liberalism. One side is not virtuous, and the other evil. They are both simply human. Humans don’t like to lose. That’s it. Nothing more.