From Fox News:
The six-month election recount that turned former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
That’s the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes…
It was clear, early on, that Democrats were doing a replay in Minnesota of what they had done in 2004 in Washington – a close race with the Democrat slightly behind, and they just kept finding votes until they had enough to put the Democrat slightly over the top. They also tried this in Florida in 2000, and failed.
The preservation of our democratic way of governance requires absolute security of the vote – there must never be even the slightest shadow of the doubt that the person holding the seat won it fairly. Right now, there is no such certainty in the 2008 Minnesota result and the only recourse is for the Senate to expel Franken and thus allow the people of Minnesota to use their constitutional means of selecting a Senator to legitimately hold the seat.
A new, fair ballot would be the best means – even if it ends up returning Franken to serve out the rest of his term (though he should be thoroughly investigated to ensure he did nothing criminal as regards the 2008 vote). This is not a small issue; this is not just politics as usual – this is the viability of a government of, by and for the people. It doesn’t take many fraudulent elections before all of them are mere criminal conspiracies. We must do the right thing here.
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