Vote the Graveyards

Here in Louisiana we have a reputation for political corruptness, along with Florida and New Jersey. Let's add Minnesota to that list. According to the Wall Street Journal,

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

Uuuh, no. The only way to explain having more ballots than voters is that the precinct officials are corrupt. Corrupt. They should have seen the problem earlier and taken steps to fix it. Turning in more votes than registered voters is simply, unambiguously corrupt.

As it turns out, Al Franken is helped by this process. I don't think Al is corrupt as much as he's a foul-mouthed, arrogant, argumentative pissant, but more likely the Democratic machine in Minnesota is corrupt.

After eight years of the Democrats hollering about the "culture of corruption", it's refreshing to see all the corruption coming out of the Democratic Party. Even if they are piss-poor at it. C'mon. More ballots than registered voters? Gimme a break.

Lyndon Johnson is probably rolling in his grave, or chuckling up his sleeve. The guys in Minnesota are rank amateurs.

For the record, if Norm Coleman couldn't do better than a couple of hundred votes against Al Franken, then he probably deserves to lose. He should have done better, but he didn't. Still, more ballots than voters? There's only one way to explain that and it ain't incompetence.