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Media Ignore Fact that Minn. Recount Boss Mark Ritchie an ACORN Ally
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
In the Coleman-Franken Senate recount battle developing in Minnesota, almost all media accounts fail to mention that Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who largely controls the process, is not only a liberal Democrat, but also an ally of ACORN and liberal philanthropist George Soros.
Even fewer media outlets report the fact that both Ritchie and fellow Democrat Al Franken were endorsed by ACORN. Ritchie, like so many liberals, is dismissive of electoral fraud allegations in general. He failed to investigate claims by a conservative group about voter roll irregularities. (See "SOS in Minnesota," American ...
Minnesota Recount: Mystery Ballots, Phantom Votes and other Phenomena
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, 2008 Senate Who needs hanging chads? Yesterday, Ramsey County, Minnesota discovered 171 previously uncounted ballots in the Senate race recount between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. Of those 171 newly-discovered ballots, 91 went to Franken. That's a rate of 53%, significantly higher than the 45% of counted ballots in Ramsey County that have gone to Franken so far. We already know of dozens of previous instances of missing votes turning up, totaling hundreds of net votes gained for Franken. Since yesterday, unbelievably, more ...
Minnesota Senate Update
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
Powerline has an update on the Minnesota Senate race:
“So the board now brings Minnesota to the verge of a Florida-style fiasco. The treatment of rejected absentee ballots may vary throughout the state, subject to no uniform standard. Many counties have refused to sort rejected absentee ballots in the “recommended” manner. No standard for including previously rejected absentee ballots has ever been provided. It is not part of the recount process contemplated by the statute.”
Bush vs Gore seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime case. Now, just 8 ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
Power Line —
... The Canvassing Board consists of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie -- the Man from ACORN and George Soros -- and four judges (including Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson and Associate Justice G. Barry Anderson). Last week the Canvassing Board unanimously adopted Al Franken's playbook for the recount, taking action that threatens to sow chaos in the process. Below I take the liberty of reiterating my interpretation of events I originally reviewed on Saturday morning as a preview to events unfolding this week. ...
Will Al Franken Steal Minnesota?
GayPatriot —
... Eight years ago, the media pilloried then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris for less than the strange goings-on in the Gopher State. If a Republican state Secretary of State had ties to a conservative group with legal problems as Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has to ACORN, you can bet the media would make an issue of it. But, only conservatives have questioned his ties (e.g. here) to that left-wing outfit often in trouble with the law. ...
Our Long National Embarassment Has Now Begun
The Sundries Shack —
... who was elected to office with a big helping hand from George Soros . So you just know everything was above board and even-handed. If the GOP isn’t wide awake right now, it ought to be. There is no way that Al Franken, who is a fifth-rate intelligence and was so miserably bad on the radio that not even millions of pumped-in bucks could keep Air America afloat, would have gotten within ten points of Norm Coleman with a competent RNC. Now, Democrats have 59 Senators, plus a handful of Republican Senators (including John McCain) who will stand with the progressives about half ...
Al Franken to Be Handed Coleman's Senate Seat
Moonbattery —
... and the extremely unsavory ultra-left outfits Moveon.org and ACORN. Since the election was close, they just kept counting the votes and discovering new votes until they got the results they wanted. As FDR's ...
Part Three: Secretaries of State and Control
Just Politics..? Daily Feed —
... The Secretary of State Project claims it is around to prevent voter fraud but, oddly enough, only backs Democrats. This fact alone makes the organization suspect as “voter fraud” should be monitored for the sake of both parties and all Americans. According to The American Spectator: ...
Race-Baiting Group Hitting TV's Glenn Beck Was Founded By Obama's Communist Green Jobs Czar
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Rucker is a former MoveOn.org organizer. He is also a co-founder of the Secretary of State Project, the group that helped to elect Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. Ritchie, a former community organizer who has worked hand in hand with ...
