Case Number One: Two Questions
By Mitch Berg
Last month, Minnesota’s American Civil LIberties Union chapter ran a publicity stunt, offering a thousand dollar reward for an example of a case of voter fraud that a Voter ID Amendment would have caught.
Today, the Minnesota Majority took the stunt ball and rran, producing a case and putting in its clam for the reward:
Dan McGrath, executive director of Minnesota Majority, produced court records from an Anoka County case involving voting in the 2008 election. The records concern an Andover woman who was charged with three felonies. According to the records, prosecutors believe she voted in person in her own name, and by absentee ballot in the name of her daughter, who was away at college.
The daughter also voted near her college in the same election. The mother, according to records produced by McGrath, pleaded guilty to one of the charges and was sentenced to probation in August of 2011.
I”ll be asking McGrath for the names. I’ll bet dimes to dollars the woman voted DFL both times.
But that’s not really the subject of this post.
No, I have two other observations.
Is Jim Ragsdale Gunning For Lori Sturdevant’s Gig?: Ragsdale kicked off his piece with the following, to which I’ve added emphasis:
A small conservative activist group known as the Minnesota Majority, which has been investigating voting irregularities in Minnesota for years, claimed a $1,000 prize offered by the ACLU for finding a case of fraud that a photo ID requirement would have prevented.
So the MInnesota Majority is “small” and “conservative” – but the ACLU is omniscient and balanced?
Why does Ragsdale feel the need to label Minnesota Majority’s ideology but not that of the ACLU?
And why does he call it “small”, when the MM likely puts more activists out in the field on any given day than the ACLU – which is, let’s not forget, a couple of lawyers in an office in Saint Paul and a “membership” that is largely a list of donors?
Mr. Ragsdale: Editorialize much?
So How Much Fraud Does The Left Find Acceptable?: Greta Bergstrom, who works for “Take Action Minnesota”, tweeted:
A college student was impersonated by her mom. Seriously? This is the “voting threat” in MN? #mnleg #stribpol
Let’s try to illustrate this for you. Let’s say that the Koch Brothers forges a ballot on a referendum to ban abortion. That forged ballot negated the vote of one pro-choice woman. Would that level of fraud be acceptable? Just one pro-choice woman?
Think hard, Greta. Crank that finely-honed progressive propaganda-bot mind up to “puree” and cough up an answer.
You can do it. I just know you can.
March 6th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
They’re damned worried that any voter might be “disenfranchised” but won’t back measures to assure that any vote is honest and legal. Such is the diseased liberal mind.
March 6th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
What are the odds that Dog Gone will leave a comment on this post?
March 6th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
oops, look who has egg on their face. but 1,000 bucks really? if they had any balls they’d offer up 10K 50K or 100K. Such a low figure is practically an admission of guilt, especially when you look at their bottom line.
March 6th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
I was listening to ‘CCCP, er make that ‘CCO this afternoon and heard both McGrath and the ACLU rep going back and forth on this. It looks like MinnMaj has the ACLU dead to rights on this. This followed a discussion earlier this afternoon where Mark Ritchie claimed that “voter ID is a solution in search of a problem”. The ACLU rep said (I’m paraphrasing) “we need to check this claim out – but hey the current system caught it anyway so no biggie” and the host, Chicago 720 WGN’s John Williams asked if this all the MinnMaj had to claim. Minn Maj guy responded by noting number of felons who have voted illegally.
I’ll can only hope, Mitch, that you did a FTFY tweet substituting ‘Scott Walker’ for college student and ‘Koch Brother’ for Mom just for S’s & G’s.
(I’m texting too much – I know.)
March 6th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Seflores: I went to ‘CCO tonight to see if the TWolves were on. They weren’t. I listened to 45 seconds of their election coverage and tuned it out before I got sucked into their vortex of self-importance. I am shocked, shocked anyone from our side of the aisle would admit to listening to the Evil Neighbor. Your credentials have to be taken under advisement. I’ll get back to you.
March 7th, 2012 at 7:10 am
Big; I agree. I can’t watch those morons on WDFL, either, especially that smug elitist Pat Kessler! Unfortunately, my liberat wife (not her as a person – just her political convictions) loves it. I have attempted to switch to every other local channel for news, but I get crap for it, expecially if I’m watching Fox or Channel 9.
March 7th, 2012 at 8:16 am
Please, somebody explain to me what the problem is with this woman’s daughter “voting twice”? It is COMPLETELY LEGAL, per Minnesota law. Look it up.
March 7th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Aw shucks, Stinky, you flatter me with your concern. Don’t worry, I’m a big boy now. I can even read the NYT without making a scowly face most of the time. I think people of the Left are wrong (and amusing) and I hope when you get back to me I’ll continue to have earned as much trust as a commenter in the SitD Comment Lounge can earn.