{"id":90175,"date":"2026-03-25T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90175"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:01:21","slug":"perish-the-thought-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90175","title":{"rendered":"Perish The Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is talking with Bill GUNKEL, former Republican who is now chairmain of the Inver Grove Heights chapter of \u201cFormer Republicans for Ron Paul&#8230;er, Dennis Massie&#8221;. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GUNKEL: \u00a0 Illegal immigrant voting is\u00a0<em>impossible<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Of\u00a0<em>course\u00a0<\/em>it is. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GUNKEL: Glad we agree!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Of course. \u00a0 When the DFL jammed down automatic vote registration on issuing drivers licenses, and then passed drivers licenses for illegal aliens. and pointedly shot down GOP attempts to have those IDs labeled &#8220;Not to be used for voting&#8221;, in a system that allows any voter to &#8220;vouch&#8221; up to eight other voters in with a &#8211; wait for it &#8211; drivers license, that was all just to spike the rhetorical ball in the end zone during the &#8220;trifecta&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GUNKEL: \u00a0There&#8217;ve only been five examples of illegal voting found in the past 400 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0 Er&#8230;OK, so let&#8217;s say some illegal\u00a0<em>does\u00a0<\/em>vote in Minnesota. \u00a0We can&#8217;t identify illegals at the polls, and we don&#8217;t have provisional ballots, so once a ballot is cast, there&#8217;s nothing we can do about it in the unlikely event we\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>catch them. \u00a0Which, if you assume the oh-so-<em>extreme\u00a0<\/em>hypothetical that Secretary of State Simon and Attorney General Ellison are in on the fraud, there&#8217;s absolutely no impetus for them to do. \u00a0 Aren&#8217;t these &#8220;small numbers&#8221; small numbers because the system is designed\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>to catch illegal immigrants voting?<\/p>\n<p>GUNKEL: (<em>pregnant pause<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0 Not to mention the thousands of cases of fraudulent registrations found in 2012, which I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>sure\u00a0<\/em>were there just for the fun it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GUNKEL: \u00a0 Illegal immigrant voting is\u00a0<em>impossible<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Of course it is. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is talking with Bill GUNKEL, former Republican who is now chairmain of the Inver Grove Heights chapter of \u201cFormer Republicans for Ron Paul&#8230;er, Dennis Massie&#8221;. \u00a0 GUNKEL: \u00a0 Illegal immigrant voting is\u00a0impossible. \u00a0\u00a0 BERG: \u00a0Of\u00a0course\u00a0it is. \u00a0 GUNKEL: Glad we agree! BERG: \u00a0Of course. \u00a0 When the DFL jammed down automatic vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,2],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-90175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-minnesota-politics","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90177,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175\/revisions\/90177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}