http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449334,00.html
Sure, shoot the messenger. But this is starting to smell.
Just think how the media would cover this story if Franken was ahead by so few points.
Looks like this will be Mark Ritchie's only term a Secretary of State. Will he take the fall to insure a Franken victory?
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The media would be all worked up in a lather if Franken was in the lead and they were "finding" ballots for Coleman.
Only one county, Stearns, has their ballots under lock and key storage.
Freedom is slavery.
I keep forgeting .........
Don't question INSOC
They lost a lawsuit against him for exposing them as a bunch of LIARS. The book is titled, LIES and the LYING LIARS who tell them.
Franken exposes a lot of LIES from righties from Coulter to O'reilly. It's enough to make O'reilly shout at him to shut up!!!!
Ha, it's too funny.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/34306799.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsX
" The referee in Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race must act in a nonpartisan fashion, yet Ritchie came to office through a nationwide partisan strategy. He was elected in 2006 as part of a national campaign to ensure that Democrats could wield influence in precisely the sort of hair's breadth race we now have here.
Ritchie gained office with the help of the Secretary of State Project (SOS), an independent 527 group co-founded by former MoveOn.org leader James Rucker. SOS is based in San Francisco, and is funded in part by ultra-liberal kingmakers such as George Soros. ...
"National Democratic groups ... are pouring resources" into secretary of state races in key swing states, in order to enhance their control in future tight elections, said [USA Today]. Minnesota was one of the top six states targeted.
Ritchie was the SOS poster boy, and SOS co-founder Becky Bond took credit for his victory. ...
On the day before last week's election, the respected on-line journal Politico predicted that these SOS victories would bear fruit this year. "Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states," Politico said. As a result, they are now "in a more advantageous position when it comes to the interpretation and administration of election law...." "
That said, vote counts always change when they're cavassed. That's not news. What IS news is that, not only is Coleman aggressively trying to stop the state-mandated recount (what exactly is it that republicans have against democracy and the rule of law? Oh yeah...neither work in their favor very often), but he is also making egregious accusations against the sec. of state, without any substantive evidence upon which to make those absurd claims.
"http://www.startribune.com/politics/34306799.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsX "
Weird...just as I said...no evidence whatsoever to back the absurd claims. Go figure.
Meanwhile, how come the republicans aren't saying anything about millions of eligible voters that were improperly purged from eligible voting lists this year, or the HIGHLY dubious shenanigans going on in the senatorial race in Alaska right now? Oddly, there's nothing but silence from these "valiant election warriors" from the "right" on those critically important issues.
I also do not recall them having anything to say about a 2000 election in FL, in which a highly corrupt and highly partisan governor and sec. of state shut down the mandatory statewide recount, in order to name the governor's brother, and the candidate whom the corrupt sec. of state was campaigning for, the "winner." To make matters even more unacceptably anti-American, a corrupt and highly partisan SCOTUS far overstepped its legal bounds to name this candidate the 43rd president, thereby effectively enacting a coup. Not a peep of complaint from the "right," though, and in fact, to this day, they refuse to acknowledge what happened.
Same for OH in 2004. Hundreds of thousands of legal, registered voters illegally disenfranchised, simply because they commit the "sin" of tending to vote democratic. A highly corrupt and partisan sec. of state who was, again, the campaign manager for the GOP candidate for the state of OH, as was Katherine Harris for the state of FL in 2000. I'm sure it's just a shocking coincidence that both states became the critical lynchpins for those elections, and both, shockingly enough, were "won" by the republican candidate. Go figure.
Also in OH in 2004, over 150,000 provisional ballots were cast, almost exclusively by black voters, who voted 88% for Kerry in 2004. They were NEVER COUNTED. Yet, Bush was declared the "winner" of that critical state by roughly 125,000 votes. Additionally, several democratic precincts reported "vote flipping" that occured overnight, whereby electronic voting machines that had tabulated a massive majority of votes for Kerry, magically became Bush votes overnight. Beyond that, some democratic precincts reported OVER 100% voter turnout, and not a single voter voted for Kerry, in spite of the fact that the precincts were almost entirely democratic. There were also precincts with only a few hundred registered voters that logged over 5,000 votes for Bush. Strange.
Odd as well, was the fact that, in both 2000 and 2004, every single unexplained anamoly that was documented went in Bush's favor. Not a single oddity fell to either Gore or Kerry. The odds of this happening without tampering are beyond astronomical. Try "not even imaginable."
Yet, our valiant MN senate election "warriors" on the "right" say nothing about these elections, except to mock those of us who've actually done some homework on the topics.
Now, all of the sudden, when it begins to appear that THEY might lose an election, whether it be the result of nothing more than a legal, entirely legitimate recount, or through outright fraud, they're beside themselves. NOW, election integrity matters a whole bunch. Sorry, but you're WAY behind in this game. You've got a LOT of catching up to do, to really understand the importance of election integrity in this country.
Uh...sorry, but that doesn't constitute a crime as far as I know, nor is it proof of any wrongdoing. Care to try again, or are you just going to rely entirely upon partisan heresay and mudslinging?
The simple FACT is that there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that the secretary of state is doing anything other than his job. He has done NOTHING in a partisan fashion.
But, as usual, when the "right" has nothing, they simply make shit up.
That is a given.
//yet Ritchie came to office through a nationwide partisan strategy. //
Who doesn't? Especially in this climate. Does the name Katherine Harris ring any bells?
//He was elected in 2006 as part of a national campaign to ensure that Democrats could wield influence in precisely the sort of hair's breadth race we now have here.//
I would argue to ensure nonpartisan recounts unlike the partisan abomination that happened in Florida in 2000 or in Ohio in 2004.
Franken caught in another lie!
I guess he just wants this too much. Enough that he has to lie about it.
It just doesn't end.