Franken Steals It for Dems

The WSJ sums up the election fraud-turned-circus in the Minnesota Senate race, where Al Franken and his team of Democrat lawyers, successfully changed the rules after Election Day to come up with enough "provisional votes" to steal the Senate seat.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

...Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.

The Democrats tried to do this in the 2000 Presidential Election and would have been successful if it weren't for a strong-spined Republican in Bush. They succeeded in overturning a vote in the Washington Governor race of 2004. This makes it 2 out of 3 - I think they found a new recipe that works well. Now the Dems have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. They own the economy, health care, the job market, national security, taxes and everything else. Better hold onto your wallets...