Cheating for Al in Minnesota.

This burns me up.

This year it’s in Minnesota. John Hinderraker from Powerline Blog reports that Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken has dropped in consecutive days from 725 to 447 to 237 votes. I guess they won’t actually stop the recount until Franken wins. Funny how that works.

Some very basic questions need to be answered. What are the precincts that have allegedly “corrected” the vote totals they originally reported? On what basis were the alleged corrections made? Did both Republicans and Democrats participate in the alleged corrections? Have the original paper ballots been securely maintained since the polls closed? What assurances are in place to prevent Democrats from fraudulently adding new paper ballots? Do the precincts that have revised their vote totals use the optical scan system that is, as I understand it, nearly universal? If not, why not? If so, what do the ballot machines’ tapes show? If the totals now being claimed are inconsistent with the tapes that were signed by the precinct’s election judges, on what basis can they be accepted? Why is it that each “correction” seems to favor Franken?

The Coleman campaign has reportedly dispatched volunteers to try to guard the security of ballots in some locations. The danger, of course, is that they could already be too late. Minnesota’s Secretary of State, a left-wing activist who was elected in 2006 after MoveOn.org and other nationwide groups targeted the Minnesota Secretary of State race, has yet to certify vote totals. If fraud is to be committed, it most likely has taken place already, or will occur before the recount begins.

UPDATE: Hot off the press, the first apparent evidence of fraud. Last night at around 7:30, a precinct in Mountain Iron, St. Louis County, mysteriously updated its vote total to add 100 new votes–all 100 for Barack Obama and Al Franken.

Mountain Iron uses optical scanning, so the Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the tape documenting the ballots cast on election night. St. Louis County responded by providing a tape that includes the newly-added 100 votes, and is dated November 2–the Sunday before the election. St. Louis County reportedly denies being able to produce the genuine tape from election night, even though Minnesota law, as I understand it, requires that tape to be signed by the election judges and publicly displayed.

Maybe there is some legitimate explanation for these events, but I haven’t thought of one yet. More to come.

It’s just another example whereby Democrats actively commit election fraud, but should they lose they simply project their sins on their opponents. Thus, such as in 2000, an all Democrat-appointed state supreme court affirms the cherry picking vote fabrication in three Democrat-controlled counties using faulty ballots designed by a Democrat election board. Citing the infamous 5-4 halting the process (finding December 12 as the deadline Florida state law had established for recounts – three counts all won by Bush) Democrats simply ignore the Supreme Court 7–2 vote — including liberals Breyer and Souter — finding that the Florida Supreme Court’s method for recounting ballots violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

From this, revisionists on the Left created “Selected, not elected.”

And, as any lie repeated frequently with help from media saturation, it sticks.