Al Franken and ACORN

It's not a blogger asking about ACORN's role in electing Al Franken, it's Katherine Kersten, a staff reporter for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, who is wondering.

Here in Minnesota, ACORN has boasted of playing a major role in the 2008 elections. It claims to have registered 43,000 new voters, which it describes as 75 percent of the state's new registrations. Franken's margin of victory in the Senate race was razor-thin: 312 votes out of about 3 million cast. And Minnesota's laws on proof of voter eligibility are notoriously loose. Did ACORN folks pull some fast ones to help get their favorite son Franken elected -- a win that handed Democrats the 60-vote, veto-proof majority that they needed to enact their liberal agenda?

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie assures us that Minnesota's system of voter verification protects electoral integrity.

But here's an uncomfortable fact: Ritchie himself was endorsed by the now-notorious ACORN and elected with its help.

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Interesting that the article appears in the decidely leftwing Star-Tribune. One comment is interesting.

While visiting a border town between Wisconsin and Minnesota just before the election, I was told that college students were encouraged to vote at home (outside of MN) absentee and then vote again in their temporary college town.

Start checking the ACORN voter registration lists that were collected at the colleges and universities in Minnesota and see if the students are temporary or permanent residents.

Voting twice is voter fraud.

This is not surprising. Even in my small, hometown newspaper, they are noticing an upsurge of residents of New York City and surrrounding areas re-registering on the basis of second homes in the usual Republican stronghold of upstate New York.