Illegal Votes by Felons Put Al Franken in Senate

by Jeff Davis

The Republicans are no saints. But when it comes to corruption, from Tammany Hall to New Orleans to the cesspool in Chicago that produced Obama, you just can’t beat the Democrats. They wrote the book on corruption.

A Fox News article reports: “A study finds that at least 341 convicted felons voted illegally in the election that made former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken a U.S. senator in 2008. The six-month election recount that turned…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 — 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.” (more…)