Shot in the Dark

Voter Suppression

In perhaps the most bald-faced violation of Berg’s Seventh Law in history, the DFL – which is constantly whinging about phantom claims of “voter suppression” – is actively trying to disenfranchise half of this state’s electorate in the Presidential election.

DFL Chair Ken “Dwight Schrute” Martin is sueing to keep Donald Trump off the Minnesota ballot in November, over an absurd, abstruse technicality in election law:

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s Thursday lawsuit claims the Minnesota Republican Party failed to nominate its presidential electors, the people who cast the state’s 10 electoral college votes, in accordance with state law. Keith Downey, the chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, said last month that the party called a special meeting to approve alternative electors because it had previously neglected to do so.

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One of these people is imitating Mussolini. The other was a character on a hit TV show.

The suit, which was filed directly to the Minnesota Supreme Court, adds a new level of chaos to an already strange election season. It could cause the parties to spend some of the rushed final eight weeks of the election fighting in court, distracting from other campaigning. While the suit is a technical one, if successful, it could affect the entire presidential election.

If the DFL wins – and one would think even Minnesota’s absurdly liberal Supreme Court couldn’t possibly be that obtuse – then long-time friend of this blog Dave Thul had a great idea; every conservative should vote for Jill Stein, and make the Greens a major party in Minnesota, sapping DFL votes for at least the next four years and drawing money from the DFL’s graft pool.

There’s also a part of me that hopes Martin “wins”.  This – the most baldfaced example of corruption masquerading as law I’ve seen in my lifetime – would stand a good chance of opening an epic floodgate of support for Trump, or at least against Hillary’s party.

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12 responses to “Voter Suppression”

  1. DMA Avatar
    DMA

    Being as the Mn GOP is infested with NeverTrumpers it doesn’t surprise me a bit that they screwed up the paperwork.

  2. The Big Stink Avatar
    The Big Stink

    The DFL has a graft pool? Does media know this?

    Rhetorical, I know. Never mind.

  3. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    These reprobates need to be regulated.

  4. thorleywinston Avatar
    thorleywinston

    Being as the Mn GOP is infested with NeverTrumpers it doesn’t surprise me a bit that they screwed up the paperwork.

    Yes that’s exactly right, it was a conspiracy of massive proportions which included not only the members of the State Executive Committee, the Constitution Committee, the Rules Committee and the hundreds of delegates and alternates in attendance at the 2016 MN GOP Convention including those who were elected as delegates for Donald Trump.

    All of these people working together decided secretly using our double secret code which you can only read if you have your GOPe secret decoder ring was that the best thing to do going into the fall election was to deliberately “screw[] up the paperwork.” When Downey, Fields, et al spoke about unity and supporting all of our endorsed candidates they were secretly blinking in Morse code: Except Trump, Never Trump.

    Or it could just be that the law was changed just recently and quietly to require that Alternate Presidential Electors be elected at a State convention and something that hasn’t been an issue for 40 plus years slipped through the cracks.

  5. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    The DFL has a graft pool? Does media know this?

    They think it is a draft pool, so nothing doing.

  6. SmithStCrx Avatar
    SmithStCrx

    DMA, I wouldn’t say that the MN GOP is full of #NeverTrumpers. I would say that their handling of the new law requiring alternates to also be elected was amateurish and unacceptable. Getting the nominee on the ballot is a core function of the party this year (arguably the only core function this cycle)., and the law was passed before this last session.

    I like Thul’s idea. Johnson is not doing a good job convincing disaffected republicans to vote for him, and I’m struggling with the idea of voting for McMullin because I’d hate to give major party status back to the IP. I could get behind Stein to make it interesting in 2018 & 2020.

  7. DMA Avatar
    DMA

    Typical GOPe tactic. You don’t like someone scream CONSPIRACY NUT!

    Well I didn’t say conspiracy, you did. That makes you a conspiracy theory theorist. A DOUBLE nut.

    I think it was extreme passive aggression on the part of party bosses who hate Trump so badly they won’t lift a finger to help him.

  8. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Keith Downey, the chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, said last month that the party called a special meeting to approve alternative electors because it had previously neglected to do so.

    Guy must have grown up believing Steve Martin’s advice on How to Make a Million Dollars and Not Pay any Taxes. First, make a million dollars. Then, don’t pay any taxes. When they call to ask about it, just tell them: “I forgot.”

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  9. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    This was just released via the Red Star’s site:

    “Minnesota Supreme Court’s Decision keeps Trump on Ballot”
    The court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from the DFL over a legal technicality.

    Mainly, Ken “Dumbass” Martin waited too long to file and did not leave enough time for consideration of the challenges.

    So, suck it Kenny!

  10. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    That’s cool. DFL sues based on a legal technicality, gets suit tossed over a legal technicality.

  11. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    “Being as the Mn GOP is infested with NeverTrumpers ”

    Standing by for an insightful interview with Arne Carlson.

  12. BlindSquirrel Avatar
    BlindSquirrel

    At first I thought this suit was bad. The law was plain. The case a slam dunk. There was no hope. Then I find out that you can get a pass on a technicality. Who’d a thunk it was possible. Insert quotation” If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”. Everyone gets paid to win. Sometimes it might be better to get paid to lose.

    Strange fortune that Trump as a write-in candidate rather than a colored in box might have forced a hand count of all the ballots. Perhaps this would have put to bed the question of whether those scanner boxes are jiggered or not. The blind squirrel almost found a nut.

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