Al Franken Won His Senate Race Legitimately!

(or not) (I say not, by the way)

I was listening to Neal Boorts while working and he went over the following and a few more examples. Suffice it to say, this election appears to have been well and truly stolen.

Every time there was a controversy, the survey board sided with Franken. If there was a different number of ballots between machine and hand-counts, they went with the one that favored Franken. In one case they said to go with the machine count that got Franken more votes. In another case they said to go with the hand count and THAT got Franken more votes. In Minnesota, if a ballot is damaged, they are supposed to make a duplicate ballot for the recount, and mark it as a duplicate... and they failed to mark them. So there are possibly double-counted or just plain fake votes being counted, benefiting Franken. Board say: OK! Now, the election is about to be certified. The Democrat-leaning counties are done recounting and the Republican-leaning counties are not done, and the race looks like it will go to Franken, so we're going to go ahead and call it for Franken. Why? Because courts are loath to overturn called elections.

Are you getting the idea that the Fix is in for Franken yet? Now tell me again why they don't have electronic voting machines with paper backup copies of the ballots?

None of this is reason enough to have a special election? Seriously? Come on now, where is the Governor? Oh, that's right. Wrong side of the aisle being trampled, sorry. You know the fun part is that if there hadn't been a black guy er, the Messiah hopechange on the ballot, it would have probably been a landslide for the also-ran who ran against a down-ballot Democrat Coleman.

So my interesting question for you is, is it better for the state machine to rig a vote so the Democrat I'll-be-a-dem-handpuppet candidate wins, or is it better for the Governor to sell the seat? Oh wait, they are both examples of corruption. Great.

Nice, those Democrat election machines, eh?

edit/update: oh, there are also 25 precincts with more ballots cast than registered voters. Nope, no fraud there.