It looks like ACORN only sent the rear end of one:
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes — fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority’s newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been “stonewalled.”
“We aren’t trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can’t be done,” said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority’s executive director. “We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn’t compromised.”
Good luck with that.
God I wish I’d have thought of that title first.
The same clowns who pushed Franken over the line did the same thing in the Washington contest for governor years earlier. A recount by Democratic officials turned a narrow Republican victory into a hair’s breadth Democratic victory. In both states the margin of victory was provided by illegal votes. See the soundpolitics.com archives to read the full bloody awful story.
…And, of course, health care deform wouldn’t have happened without Franken’s vote.
Free and fair elections are a bedrock necessity for us to have a successful republic. They are much more important than many other things cited as being so necessary to our society. Where’s the outrage?
One tossed-off idea in Heinlein’s Moon is A Harsh Mistress is the idea of a legislative body where it takes a supermajority to pass anything but a simple majority to repeal anything. I always kind of liked that one.
Me too, add unanimous (-1, there’s always some nut) to override a veto and I think you’re there.