This story about the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota has taken a week or more to float, like a rotting corpse, to the surface of the news cycle.
Democrat Al Franken keeps accumulating found votes to whittle down Republican Norm Coleman's lead, by a unanimous margin. So is the game now to claim all those votes being found for him after the election are disenfranchised citizens?
Doesn't strike me as very honest but let's see how this game of monopoly plays itself out.
Up to now, Franken has enjoyed a novice's entry into the body politic. Now it's about to get decidedly nasty, possibly worse than Florida in 2002 from a legal angle.
The curious Mr. Franken is just letting it all be, as registration questions start to haunt his vote count.
News Hounds tore down FOX News, as usual, but take a look at Sean Hannity's broadcast with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
32 votes found in a trunk. 246 votes in another election precinct lost, then found. Another 100 votes, all for Franken. No votes for Coleman. That's statistically impossible.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune called the Coleman vs. Frank re-count: The Rematch
"If you can count, we need you in Minnesota by November 16 for training,'' hollered an e-mail flyer that featured a winking Sarah Palin and was sent to party activists nationwide by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The Star Tribune also had observations by Jeff Davis of the Minnesota Majority on its State's registration process -- and something called "vouching":
"Vouching is provision in Minnesota law that allows a person to register on Election Day simply by having someone from the precinct confirm his or her identity. I watched as the individual filled out a paper registration card and was immediately provided with a ballot. There was no verification by election officials that the information on the registration card was, in fact, accurate."
Oh boy ...
So it's harder to register a canoe in Minnesota than it is to "vouch" for someone's identity to vote?
What would the old Al Franken have done?
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