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Another ACORN Secretary of State in Minnesota will be running the Coleman-Franken recount

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  November 7th, 2008 at 01:57 PM  | 

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Last week, I wrote that the links between ACORN, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, and the group Secretary of State Project were concerning. I asked how many other Secretaries of State were backed by ACORN.

Well. There’s a recount in Minnesota that will determine whether Norm Coleman keeps his seat. And another ACORN backed, Secretary of State Project-backed candidate will be doing the recount. Let’s see what they say about Ritchie.

The Secretary of State Project describes him as:

In 2006, the SoS Project helped elect one of the most progressive Secretaries of State in the nation, Mark Ritchie. How he got his start in politics? As a community organizer.

The SoS Project describes Brunner and Ritchie as their success stories. Recall that Brunner tried to throw out all of the McCain absentee ballot applications, violated federal law by sepcifically directing Ohio to turn off validity checks on registration, and encouraged county election officials to not allow Republican election officials to observe voting. In every case, courts said she was simply wrong. There is a reason that SoS Project backed Ritchie, just like they backed Brunner. Partisanship at the cost of electoral integrity.

Here’s Ritchie’s background. He used his government office for political gain:

Ritchie acknowledged asking a campaign volunteer to copy a list of participants in a civic engagement program through the secretary of state’s office to his campaign newsletter, which included a political contribution request.

He was endorsed by ACORN.

So we have a guy who was elected by a group whose practices encourage at least voter registration fraud and make it easier to cheat in elections. He was elected by a group that is seeking to make sure that the people who count votes are partisans, and their other success story in 2006 has been shot down by the court repeatedly in her attempts to rig Ohio elections. And he misused government resources for political purposes.

This is the guy counting the votes. Who is he going to dance with? The ones that brought him? We know how they play.

Crossposted from The Next Right.

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  • MichaelBDR

    Infiltrating all the lower posts is part of the Marxist takeover manifesto.

    • geraldatwork

      Hopefully there will be enough lawyers and staff people on both sides so when every vote is (re)counted everybody will be satisfied there was a correct decision. I also believe there should be election reform where partisan people shouldn’t be running these things. Over the past few election cycles both parties have been guilty when given the opportunity.

      • Southpaw75

        there will be any outcome other than that idiot Franken winning the seat. They will cheat no matter what.

    • walter_hanson

      Dear Folks:

      Have you wondered why Norm’s lead has been shrinking. One precint added a 100 new votes. They were all for Obama for President and all for Franken for senate (very inconsistent with how Franken polled the whole state)

      Now here’s the alarming part. The Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the optical scanner tape of the precint. It was dated November 2, 2008!

      Walter Hanson
      Minneapolis, MN

  • JLenardDetroit

    Giving the Democrats another Senator toward the 60 (especially when there are still 3-5, including McCain, wishy-washy Republicans that can at any point thwart Conservative ideals) is not an issue I take lightly. However, if there is 1 individual, above and beyond the idiocy and inability to not put their foot in their mouth and expose the real Leftist agenda behind the preferred persona of ‘being a kinder, gentler, more BI-Partisan’ Democrat Congress that Reid, Pelosi, Biden, and even Obama himself does, that would be openly damaging to the Democrat Party, that would be Al Franken. If he were in the Senate, he would be a potential wealth of quotes/material as to why Democrats are DANGEROUS and that the country must wake up and correct its mistake ASAP (2010, obviously). Long winded way to say it might be beneficial to our side to have his idiocy and mouth in the Senate.

    Only other issue would be the degree to which the MSM would continue to cover for their Progressive/Socialist friends and try to suppress the most obvious of blunders. Thankfully, cameras and microphones are everywhere and we should be able to get hold of the occasional truthful admissions of their goals/agenda and do whatever we can to help expose it.

  • geraldatwork

    There is something wrong if we can’t trust the outcome of our elections. Without honest elections there is no Democracy. As a Democrat who has felt the same in the past election cycles as you do now, I know it is not a good feeling. While I prefer the “idiot” Franken to prevail I would not feel comfortable with him winning if I knew he won unfairly. Yes Liberals too can believe in Democracy.

  • dld1717

    The Sec of State is allowing an X instead of a pointed dot to count because she feels it shows their intent

    Its so much more easier for X marks to appear instead of a pointed dot when try to do fraudulent activity

  • Yil

    I believe there is a voter intent law there. If that’s the way the voter marked their ballot and did so only once per race then it will count. Usually the optical scanner picks those out correctly though. Other people have circled the oval they were supposed to fill in and these will count but won’t be picked up by the scanner though the number doing this is much smaller.

    There is a whole process in place to determine intent. If the local election officials on both sides agree one way or the other then it counts. If they disagree it goes to a court of like 5 pre-assigned people made up of judges and stuff to rule on the disputed cases.

    I believe the entire recount is manual from the start.

  • davo

    I never heard of Acorn before. Now I find out it’s a cancer spread throughout the body politic. But there’s more. This is truely frightening.

  • Chef

    I expected something like this (I’m in MN) when the count was close, but not quite this blatant. I guess the fact the state’s Attorney General is a friend of ACORN too makes this easier.

    Ritchie seems to be enjoying it too, though he was angry when the Coleman campaign expressed concern about the recently discovered ballots. Ritchie must think the Senator should just shut-up and watch the election fraud take it away.

    This is a very sad situation for all honest voters in Minnesota, not only Republicans.

    A quick note – The areas these Franken ballots are being discovered are a remote small town and township. Places most Minnesotans couldn’t point out on a map yesterday. Once they got the number to a couple hundred these places can tilt the results. It’s a heck of a plan for cheating.

  • Moe_Lane

    It’s not our fault that your side is being too blatant for you to ignore, this go-round.