"Election Records Suggest Some People Voted More than Once in 2008 Election
St. Paul – A Wisconsin couple was recently arrested for casting extra votes in the 2008 elections, but it appears that some voters in Minnesota might be getting away with the same crime. Minnesota Majority, a conservative non-profit issue advocacy group, has discovered evidence that at least 280 individuals may have voted more than once in the Minnesota’s 2008 general election. The group compared 2008 voter histories records and discovered that some records exactly matched one another on the criteria of first, middle and last names, year of birth and telephone number.
Before the 2008 election, Minnesota Majority had alerted Secretary of State Mark Ritchie that it had discovered similar double-voting phenomena in the records of previous elections. The Secretary of State’s office suggested that the group contact individual county attorneys in which the apparent violations had occurred.
Minnesota Majority made multiple attempts to contact 30 county attorneys requesting an investigation. Eight months later, 19 county attorneys failed to respond to Minnesota Majority’s request. Two county attorneys flatly refused to investigate. Another county attorney responded by saying he had sent a letter to the voter who had allegedly voted twice reminding her that she was only entitled to one vote and asking her not to do that again.
Minnesota state law requires a county attorney who is informed of a potential election violation to immediately investigate the matter or potentially be charged with a misdemeanor and be subject to forfeiture of his or her office.
“It appears that everyone wants to look the other way when we present evidence of apparent problems in our election system,” said Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority. “The dogma seems to be that Minnesota has this fantastic election system with unparalleled turn-out and clean results beyond reproach. When someone points out evidence to the contrary, nobody wants to hear about it and nothing is done.”
Minnesota Majority plans to provide their new evidence of double voting to the appropriate county attorneys. “We’ve been down this road before. We’ll do our civic duty and alert the appropriate law enforcement officials,” said Davis. “Perhaps this time these officials will obey the law, do their jobs and actually investigate these incidents.”
## [from Minnesota Majority]
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Mark Ritchie is a liar and a criminal. He should be the subject of a class action lawsuit by the voters of Minnesota for enabling voter fraud.
In this arena, Minnesota has EARNED the distinction of being the very worst state in the country, per this very dubious category of sanctioned massive election fraud.
Sadly, for all Minnesotans, Minnesota Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie is indeed, and by his actions and inactions, "a liar" and "a criminal", and is therefore a crook and a thief.
By betraying his oath of office as a constitutional officer in Minnesota, the very least of his punishments should be impeechment.
If we lived in a state, which had not been so quietly corrupted over the past 25 years or so, Mr. Ritchie, and all of his friends connected to this disgrace, would be on their way to jail.
But, for now, we do not live in such a State. For now, we all live in a land far far away from integrity driven public servant attitudes and conduct, and in the land of "Minnesota Nice, where anything goes - as long as the majority of us are willing to just look the other way.
For now...
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