Pay No Attention To The Fraud Behind The Curtain
By Mitch Berg
This email, from a GOP election recount-watcher, has been making the rounds of local conservative activists. I’m keeping the writer’s name off the record for now.
Emphasis is added by me:
Well, it’s been a good (better) day today here at Hennepin County for the recount. Lots of notable errors in judgment…
For instance, we found one precinct with ALL Dayton ballots challenged (103 total) that appeared to be a “mass” group of blank ballots run thru without a judge’s signature – all in a row. Shows how easily certain folks of a party’s persuasion can cheat so easily – and have it counted?
Let’s repeat that for those of you who glaze over: 103 votes, run through in a group, without a judge’s signature, apparently consecutively.
Whew. Good things the Supreme Court ruled that we don’t need to reconcile vote totals against signatures, much less investigate our whole rotten system!
It will certainly (still) be an uphill challenge, but a worthwhile one. There are so many debatable and questionable ballots – it should concern all.
Of course there are.
Which is the whole, sole, entire reason the DFL/media have started the “Frivolous Challenge” drumbeat.
The REAL question and problem being anticipated is the ‘gross’ discrepancy statewide via ‘reconciliation’ of the precincts. I’m told there are a LOT of precincts statewide that don’t reconcile their registered voter lists (count) with the number of actual ballots cast… 8,700 doesn’t appear to be a lot of difference for 87 counties with this problem.
All for today…
But there will be more.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I will say it again. I do not trust our election system in Minnesota. I am not alone. This is reason enough to review the entire process. It is undependable and subject to fraud.
Fact check that.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Good things the Supreme Court ruled that we don’t need to reconcile vote totals against signatures, much less investigate our whole rotten system!
Yeah, that is fortunate, huh? It’s our great luck that Saint Mansky and the Supremes have our back that way.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:44 pm
““mass” group of blank ballots ”
Blank? As in “no ovals filled in” for anybody? I don’t understand this statement.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Those were the ones Doggie counted!
December 1st, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Kermit Says: “I will say it again. I do not trust our election system in Minnesota. I am not alone.”
DAMN STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 1st, 2010 at 1:05 pm
As I understand it, they were ballots that were marked for Dayton, but otherwise blank.
December 1st, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Yet another problem that voter ID would do nothing to stop.
December 1st, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I’m so confused. Hennepin County assured us that their overvote this year was less than 30….how could this POSSIBLY happen?
Either they’re lying, or the overvotes in precincts like this are being balanced with equally suspect undervotes in others.
And of course, it simply wouldn’t be prudent to prosecute people caught doing this, nosirree……time to check the political affiliations of our DAs, I think.
December 1st, 2010 at 3:21 pm
So, what you’re sayinhg is that those ballots were not multisourced?
If so, they are obviously not fact based ballots, and should be rejected.
December 1st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
“otherwise blank.” OK, that clears it up.
When does an election judge sign a ballot?
Did they rule the 103 challenges as frivolous?
December 1st, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Look at the bright side. The more the DFL pisses off and disenfranchises the average voter, the bigger the margins by which they will lose. The GOP won both houses this cycle for a reason, and it wasn’t because we are all happy with Larry Pogemiller and Margaret Anderson-Kelliher.
December 1st, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Yet another problem that voter ID would do nothing to stop.
Anti-forgery laws don’t do much about the rapists in Powderhorn Park, either.
December 1st, 2010 at 4:43 pm
“Larry Pogemiller and Margaret Anderson-Kelliher.”
So happy to stick a fork in them!!!!!!!!!
December 1st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
“it wasn’t because we are all happy with Larry Pogemiller and Margaret Anderson-Kelliher.”
and it wasn’t because Franken won the recount either.
December 1st, 2010 at 5:05 pm
MON; evidently they’re signed before being handed to an actual voter.
December 1st, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Ramsey county has had 1 vote difference from their totals. They are the second largest county in the state. I agreed as a recount participant NOT to comment on what I observed.
I believe it is ok for me to share that I completely enjoyed my Republican counterparts, once they lightened up. One person in particular reminded me very much of Mitch – high energy, and very witty and charming. He made the day go much faster. In fact he invited us – the auditor staff and the other dems at that table – to join him for lunch, and to attend his wife’s concert this weekend. I think I might go.
I haven’t seen any other counties that reported any significant difference in totals.- If this is a true story – and I doubt it is, then those ballots SHOULD be challenged, and are not frivolous challenges. I would have supported those challenges by an Emmer person, as a Dayton recount observer.
But I doubt the truth of this anonymous story. You righties will believe the craziest things.
I wasn’t at the Hennepin recount – although Flash’s mom and sister were. They would know better than I if that was a true account of what went on.
Interestingly, I have read that some of the counties didn’t have very many Emmer observers, if any. But all of them had Dayton observers.
So…….I gotta wonder if this is a true occurrence, or if this is just another one of those scary stories you like to tell each other …….the phantom recount observer for Emmer, LOL.
December 1st, 2010 at 6:30 pm
It’s nice to see that Dog has no problem with the fact that confidence in our election system is severely eroded. The fact that she supports a mental deficient like Mark Dayton is no surprise either.
Par for the DFL.
December 1st, 2010 at 9:05 pm
[…] Shot in the Dark » Blog Archive » Pay No Attention To The Fraud Behind The Curtain Quote from anonymous emailer to Mitch Berg:"Well, it’s been a good (better) day today here at Hennepin County for the recount. Lots of notable errors in judgment… […]
December 1st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Dog Gone said:
“You righties will believe the craziest things”
A typical “lefty” thing to say, I suppose, but better by far than the usual foot stomping about our pristine and perfect electoral system and Tourette-ish exclamations of “FACT CHECK”.
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:35 am
>>I agreed as a recount participant NOT to comment on what I observed.
I was also a recount participant and nobody instructed us to avoid commenting on what we observed. Maybe it was a Ramsey county thing.
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
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December 2nd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
You know who DogPrescottPile reminds me of? Kevin Bacon at the end of Animal House, screaming “All’s Well” at the oncoming mob.
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Dog Gone Says: “I believe it is ok for me to share that I completely enjoyed my Republican counterparts, once they lightened up. One person in particular reminded me very much of Mitch – high energy, and very witty and charming. He made the day go much faster. In fact he invited us – the auditor staff and the other dems at that table – to join him for lunch, and to attend his wife’s concert this weekend. I think I might go.”
YAWN!
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
“In fact he invited us – the auditor staff and the other dems at that table – to join him for lunch”
I’ve had some Dems over for lunch before; they tasted like chicken!
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Dog Gone asserted:
“You righties will believe the craziest things”.
On January 13, 2009, on or about 9:01 A.M., “penigma” allegedly stated:
“put another nail in the coffin of the idea of Isreal”
Is this true? In what context?
December 6th, 2010 at 9:13 am
http://www.twincities.com/ci_16779381
“”In Minneapolis Precinct 3-3, which had the most challenges in the county, all 103 were withdrawn. “”
You’ll have to find another story to make up!
Absentee ballots don’t necessarily have initials on them. A report from a person at the recount:
“”Then in a Medina precinct an entire envelope of absentee ballots did not have election judge initials on them, and most of the votes were all for Emmer. I mistakenly thought that if the ballots were not signed off by election judges then that was a sign of something. But the election official and the Emmer floor leads came over and everyone agreed that absentee ballots do not always have election judge initials on them and that is acceptable, so I withdrew my challenge of that block of votes and they were entered into the count.””
December 6th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Um, Flash?
You’ll have to find another story to make up!
Other than clearly labelled satire (which you and Pen seem to have trouble with, for whatever reason) there has been not one thing “made up” in almost nine years on this blog. Not one thing.
You might want to pick your words more carefully. Just saying.
December 6th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Then this is clearly satire, as it turns out there isn’t a shred of truth to the claim! You are either a bold faced liar in this case, or choose to blindly promote that which you know to be pure fiction. Shot in the Onion shooting from the hip in virtually every case!
December 10th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Where is the more?
And Mitch, when you re-post my e-mails inserting numerous typos (I make enough of my own) and then claim it isn’t from someone, that’s not satire. Satire is something everyone is in on, you were, by contrast, only poking fun at me, and only you knew it. Until challenged, you didn’t even admit it wasn’t an actual e-mail but was “satire.” So Mtich, I get satire fine, I don’t get misrepresentation presented as satire..sorry.
December 10th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Satire is something everyone is in on
Nonsense.
December 10th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
And you do realize your’e going back like three years, to an argument that everyone but you seems to have long since forgotten?