Mark Ritchie will be getting added to the White House Christmas Holiday Card list, that’s for sure. He managed to pull off the theft of an election, and nary a journalist in town is willing to admit it. 

I’m listening to radio and watching TV clips and am just amazed that are just going to ignore the sham that  this election has become. 

This was not a recount. Oh sure, Ritchie called it a recount, but they didn’t just recount the ballots from election night. And that’s the problem. Adding and subtracting votes means it wasn’t a recount. Sure some things were maybe needed to change, but the recount should have just simply verified the elction night returns and the rest left for a contest portion. 

This was by no way fair, it was in no way uniform. There was no uniform standard for verifying legitimate votes. In some precincts they counted the actual ballots, in others they just took the election night results. Meaning they had 2 or more sets of standards for how to add up the ballots. 

In some cases it was after verifying the physical ballots, in others it was just taking the machine’s word for it. That doesn’t work for me. 

Then we look at the final chapter of absentee ballots. In some areas they added ballots they say were wrongly rejected, in others they refused to do so. 

In other words, the votes were cherry picked and some people’s votes were thrown out, doubled up, or changed. yes changed. This election has shown us a few valuable things. 

1) Our election system in Minnesota is clearly broken. If we don’t have a system that is bullet proof and can be trusted when an election is this close, its worthless. This should begin the call for election reforms whether it be for run offs, voter ID, or God willing an end to same day registration. Any and all of those would prevent the theft of future elections. 

2) Mark Ritchie is as unfair and partisan as could be. Again, he decided to make up the results. He did so and it just happens his pal Al benefitted huge. 

I know talk radio and journalists are tired of the whole drama, I am too. But that is not a good enough reason to avoid the truth and fall into the Democrat’s trap. yes, they manufactured this thing at the end so that Franken was ahead. That way Al appears to be the winner eventhough he lost on election night and now the public just wants it over. The local media is now racing to legitimize the most illegitimate election this state has ever seen.  

That’s the whole key here. Al Franken was behind on election night, and it was only after a series of favorable decisions that the ballots were massaged to favor him. 

Was it a conspiracy where the Franken and Ritchie team knew exactly what they were doing in each and every precinct that was changed? No, Franken and Ritchie’s people just tried to change everything they could and it worked out for them. They got away with one. 

If we had either ethical people running our elections, for office, or just an election system that was not open for interpretation, none of this would be happening and Norm Coleman would be getting sworn in again.

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