Who Says Voter Fraud Doesn't Matter?

Now that the Senate Health Care Grab has its 60 votes, think back to the Minnesota senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. A tighter control over voter fraud would have kept the Democrats from gaining that last vote they needed. There are consequences to elections, even tainted ones.

Franken Has Not Stolen Senate Race Yet

Minnesota Recount May be Unconstitutional

The 2000 Supreme Court decision may have an effect on the 2008 (going into 2009) Minnesota senate race:

By a vote of 7-2, Bush v. Gore (2000) ruled that Florida's recount violated the principle that all votes must be treated uniformly. Applying precedents dating to the 1960s, the Court found that the Equal Protection Clause meant that ballots must be treated so as to give every vote equal weight. A state may not, by "arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another." Florida's lack of standards produced "unequal evaluation of ballots in several respects." The state's supreme court "ratified this uneven treatment" and created more of its own, and was unconstitutional.
Wall Street Journal

Minnesota: Franken Trying to Steal Senate Election

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.
Fox News

Lunatic! Al Franken Takes a Run at Senator Coleman After Debate

Al Franken has shown himself to be an angry, easily enraged man and after the October 16 Minnesota Senatorial candidate's debate he allowed his overwrought emotional state to send him over the edge once again. After the debate was over and the Media had turned off their microphones and cameras, Franken rushed over to Senator Norm Coleman's table and proceeded to angrily get in his face over some point or another made during the debate. Franken was getting so angry that his own wife had to rush over and force him to back off from a mounting confrontation with Coleman.
Newsbusters

Minnesota Star Tribune Sabotaging Own Poll to Help Obama?

Just a couple of days ago, Survey USA released a polls from Minnesota showing Republican US Senator Norm Coleman ahead of Democrat Al Franken by double digits and John McCain actually ahead of Obama by 1%. A couple of days later, the Minnesota Start Tribune claims it is Franken who leads Coleman by 9% and Obama is ahead of McCain by a ridiculous 18%.

—The Hedgehog Report

Minnesota Senate Threesome

Coleman 39%
Franken 32%
Ventura 24%

Minnesota: Coleman Extends Lead Over Franken

Norm Coleman (R) vs. Al Franken (D)
Norm Coleman (R)	50%
Al Franken (D)	43%

Minnesota: Norm Coleman Leads Senate Race by 2

Norm Coleman (R) vs. Al Franken (D)
Norm Coleman (R)	48%
Al Franken (D)	46%

Minnesota: Coleman Regains Momentum, Strong Lead Over 3 Democrats

Minnesota: Coleman 49, Franken 42

Minnesota: Norm Coleman Has Huge Lead Over 2 Dems

And then the article prattles on about how unpopular Coleman is...

Minnesota: Senator Coleman Leads Franken & Ciresi

Minnesota will elect a United States Senator in November 2008. If the election for United States Senator were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were Republican Norm Coleman and (these candidates), who would you vote for?

Norm Coleman (R) 57% - 35% Al Franken (D)
Norm Coleman (R) 57% - 34% Mike Ciresi (D)

Source: SurveyUSA / WBZ-TV
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 632 registered Minnesota voters, conducted on Feb. 14, 2007. 2007. Margin of error is 3.9 per cent.