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Alarming News — Go to Minnesota John Lott has a scary piece on the Minnesota recount : When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it was 239. Late Sunday night, the difference had gone down to just 221 -- a total change over 4 days of 504 votes. Amazingly, this all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how ...

Another precinct heard from #mnrecount
SCSUScholars — John Lott writes today about the Minnesota "pre-count". This all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will be sent to the secretary of state by Friday. The actual recount won’t even start until November 19. Correcting these typos was claimed to add 435 votes to Franken and take 69 votes from Coleman. Corrections were posted in other races, ...

Lott: Minnesota could be the new Washington
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Or, as Dr. John Lott explains in his latest column , Minnesota may avoid the distinction of being the latest poster state for voter fraud if elections officials can take control of the process quickly.  John notes that the additional votes “discovered” for Al Franken against Norm Coleman seem suspicious, especially since they involve mainly three precincts out of over four thousand: Virtually all of Franken’s new votes came from just three out of 4130 precincts, and almost half the gain (246 votes) occurred in one precinct — Two Harbors, a small town north of Duluth along Lake ...

Matt Lewis: MN Senate Race Being Hijacked?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Fox News reports: "Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2006 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues." When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable ...

Roger Ailes — Rosh On Fraud Mary-John Rosh-Lott, Jnr. is concerned about phony results in the Minnesota Senate race. To many, it just seems like too much of a coincidence that Minnesota's one tight race just happens to be the race with the most "corrected" votes by far. But the real travesty will be to start letting election officials divine voter's intent. If you want to discourage people from voting, election fraud is one sure way of doing it. And if you want to discourage people from taking you seriously, research fraud is one sure way of doing ...

What's happening in Minnesota? part 4
Power Line — ... The single most illuminating explanation of the shifting Coleman-Franken election results that I have found since the numbers started shifting after 100 percent of precincts had Wednesday morning is this column by John Lott: ...

'Daily Voting News' For November 10, 2008
The BRAD BLOG — ... Johnson County is counting provisional ballots; results due Tuesday http://www.kansascity.co...g_news/story/883659.html MN: Ballot by ballot, victor to emerge http://www.startribune.c...Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUX MN: Counting Controversy: Time To Trust The ES&S M100 And Diebold AccuVote? http://www.politicsinmin...100-and-diebold-accuvote MN: Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud http://www.foxnews.com/s...ry/0,2933,449334,00.html MO: ...

Ballot Box Troubles: A Matter of Incompetence or Dishonesty?
California Conservative — ... in Lac Qui Parle County. I haven’t heard of 100 new votes being added to Franken’s and Obama’s totals in Kandiyohi County. That leads to another question: Are these problems a matter of incompetence? Or is it a matter of dishonesty? Or is it that the DFL doesn’t know how many votes it needs to manufacture to push Franken over the top? My hunch is that it’s D: all of the above. John Lott has similar questions in this article: Virtually all of Franken’s new votes came from just three out ...

Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Tuesday?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Ugly Philadelphia Inquirer: Former Phillie Turned Entrepeneur ABC News: Holloway Suspect Involved with Sex Worker Trade Newsweek: Detroit: Begging For Help US News & World Report: A Better Way to Screen for Heart Disease? Houston Chronicle: Texas Longhorn Cut Over Facebook Remark Boston Globe: Two Towns Consider Tying the Knot CNN: Holocaust Survivors Upset at Mormons Chicago Tribune: Jennifer Hudson Tragedy FOX News: Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud On Townhall.com Thomas Sowell: "Intellectuals" Chuck ...

The Rainbow Unicorn Farts Magical Votes!
Stubborn Facts — Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud Virtually all of Franken’s new votes came from just three out of 4130 precincts, and almost half the gain (246 votes) occurred in one precinct -- Two Harbors, a small town north of Duluth along Lake Superior -- a heavily Democratic precinct where Obama received 64 percent of the vote. None of the other races had any changes in their vote totals in that precinct. To put this change in perspective, that single precinct’s corrections accounted for a significantly larger net swing in votes between ...

Maybe that's three typos #mnrecount
SCSUScholars — ... The Two Harbors Ward 1 dispute (that John Lott brought up yesterday) appears to be an input error. The total Franken votes was initially entered as 27 and then updated to 273, a difference of 246. Seems quite possible someone simply forgot to put that '3' at the end. That's the first drop down that you see in the above graph. Given ...

How Democrats Are Attempting to Steal A Senate Seat
Flopping Aces — ... It’s common for vote totals to be adjusted slightly after the election to correct for any errors in reporting votes. Typically those errors will be reflected across the board for all candidates in the state. But when you find “corrections” overwhelmingly favoring one candidate and coming from only a handful of voting precincts fraud is clearly suspected. Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud By John R. Lott Jr. Fox News Monday, November 10, 2008 Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was ...

More Wingnut propaganda in the Minnesota Senate race
HorsesAss.Org — ... The latest error-prone Wingding propaganda piece comes from Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. writing an opinion piece for Fox News. Lott, a right-wing academic, begins his article by insinuating something sinister behind the changing vote tallies: ...

Magical Votes
sassafrassin.com — Fox News: Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2004 — a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues. When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. ...

Blue Minnesota
The American Spectator — ... Scholar John Lott goes so far as to say Minnesota is "Ripe for Election Fraud": "To many, it just seems like too much of a coincidence that Minnesota's one tight race just happens to be the race with the most 'corrected' votes by far. But the real travesty will be to start letting election officials divine voter's intent." ...

Faith-based election management #mnrecount
SCSUScholars — The StarTribune last week posted a note suggesting that John Lott's analysis (noted here) did not add up. It had entirely different numbers than John's analysis had had. I assumed John had seen it, and indeed he did. It turns out the data included in the StarTribune report held information on two precincts (Richfield W3 P1 and Alexandria W1 P2) that had not reported any presidential results at all. The StarTribune analysis tried to include these data to show that the changes in the Franken-Coleman race and in the Obama-McCain race were comparable. ...