I certainly agree that Mark Ritchie wants Franken to win.

‘Ballots “suddenly discovered” under a bunch of McDonalds wrappers in a back seat of a car is not a fair and open process. Vote totals that are inexplicably changed after normal working hours is not a fair and open process.’

If the votes were validly cast, it doesn’t matter how many McDonald’s wrappers they were found under. The officials should be held accountable as to why they mishandled the ballots, but if the ballots are valid, they must be counted.

“Push for basic election reforms such as showing ID before voting and an end to same-day registration. Our democracy depends on people believing that every vote cast is a legal vote.”

I don’t believe in erecting barriers to voting, but in any event, there is no reason at all to believe that the votes found under the McDonald’s wrappers were cast by people without ID’s.

The issue here is counting votes. That’s all that’s relevant, that’s all that matters.

It is very handy to have an apparently innocent malfunction to provide cover when you are stealing an election.

The fact that Ritchie refused to investigate his supporters at ACORN, despite the fact that there is evidence of massive fraud in all states they have operated in, is evidence enough of collusion.

We need to remove this clown, and remove him now.

Madia: Would you like fries with that?

Madia: Hold on, I think I hear an ambulance. Yep, gotta run.

Madia: Can I take your order please.

Madia: Clean up in aisle five.

How true. That’s why that no-talent hack is waiting in the bread line.

If you are referring to Erik The Whiner, you would be correct.

Paulsen, a “moderate” with a history of “working across the aisle, in a bipartisan manner”??!?

ROFLMAO!!!

He did NOT rise to the position of Majority Leader with a history of “working across the aisle, in a bipartisan manner.”

NO WAY you bootlickers would allow THAT to happen.

Paulsen started his campaign as a liar, he lied troughout his campaign, and he ended it as a liar.

Back to the issue at hand: What is absolutely positively clear is that Mark Richie is absolutely incompetent as Secretary of State.

He’s run his office unprofessionally and has given nobody in this state any reason for confidence in his ability to carry out his duties.

Mark Richie is a disgrace.

Too bad for the good people of the 3rd CD.

Good to know you have no concern for the rule of law. What was truly precious, however, was to see your idiot candidate Ashwin Madia get his ass kicked.

Madia: Ready to dust off his resume.

Democrats will win the day. The truth hurts.

This would truly be defining intent from thin air — an absolutely fraudulent manufacture of votes for a candidate for whom not vote was registered.

If so, then what, other than polishing ACORN’s apple, has Mark Richie been doing in the meantime to ensure that these systems and processes worked?

How could Mark Richie fuck this up. Especially if, as you say, he had fore-knowledge that there were kinks in the system to work out.

He had two years to make sure Minnesota elections could run smoothly. In fact, I think that idiot ran on the idea that he would guarantee solid operation of Minnesota’s election apparatus.

What the hell has he been doing?

How could Mark Richie fuck this up?

This year, none could.

True. Just incompetence.

Fritz Knaak, Norm Coleman’s lawyer, told the Pioneer Press that the handling of the 32 ballots in Minneapolis was “neither wrong nor unfair.”

“2. Be accountable. . . . 3. Become a reformer.”

Katherine Kersten admitted that “Ritchie has shown no evidence of misconduct.”

Hiram, what part of this do you disagree with?

Basically here is the task before Mark Ritchie:

1. Provide a fair and open process. Ballots “suddenly discovered” under a bunch of McDonalds wrappers in a back seat of a car is not a fair and open process. Vote totals that are inexplicably changed after normal working hours is not a fair and open process.

2. Be accountable. Why were the voting machines not tested before election day? Why were there machines printing the wrong date? Why weren’t machines able to upload the results automatically as they were designed? There shouldn’t be any “newly discovered votes” or “accounting errors” after election day. The reason the entire system is automated precisely to REMOVE the possibility of human errors (and the subsequent doubts about accuracy). He has yet to explain (or take responsibility for) the failure of the automated process.

3. Become a reformer. Ritchie’s former group, Acorn, has become synonymous with election fraud. Ritchie now needs to demonstrate to Minnesotans that he is no longer an agent of this group. Push for basic election reforms such as showing ID before voting and an end to same-day registration. Our democracy depends on people believing that every vote cast is a legal vote.

This is the first time that voting machines across the state were unable to securely transmit their tabulations. Had this simple thing happened, we wouldn’t have these questions marring the integrity of the recount.

You and the Wall Street Journal should do your research.