Minnesota Monkey Business
There are some strange electoral shenanigans going on out in Minnesota where they just keep finding more and more ballots cast for unemployed radio talk show host and former comedian Al Franken.
The guys at Power Line have been documenting the strangeness in anticipation of next week’s recount.
Keep an eye on things out there. Minnesota has a pretty good election system, with built-in safeguards and a fair paper trail. Even so, good systems can be corrupted if you know where to do the work. It could well be that the ACORN-backed Secretary of State there knows just what needs to be done to push Norm Coleman out of office.
Other Posts of Interest:
- ACORN Continues Its Destructive Work and the MSM Continues to Miss the Point
- Why ACORN’s Voter Registration Fraud is an Important Story
- ACORN May Have Surpassed Itself (But CNN is On the Case)
Category: Political Pontifications, The 2008 Horse Race
If that's all you got, the election went smoothly. But let's look at the issues. Typos were corrected. What else are we supposed to do? Both sides agreed that it was a typo, but you think it shouldn't be corrected? And modems failing? That happens sometimes. And that's exactly why the vote is stored in two places. If one method fails, you still have the results. Granted, that's not good enough in my book. When I worked on the design of a voting machine, we stored the data using four different methods in four different places. Unfortunately, the people who authored the HAVA were more concerned with giving Diebold business than ensuring an accurate count. Diebold couldn't meet the four count standard, so it wasn't part of the law. Regardless, the problems in Minnesota are very minor and very normal for the US. That's not to say they are acceptable. We should at least be able to count votes as efficiently and accurately as India. But I doubt I'll live long enough to see that day.