WSJ on Stolen Elections

[jgg1000a]

I am waiting for an honest Democrat to protest the 2,500 dead voters
atleast...   Where is Hollywood???

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640687950076679.html

>>> What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to 
>>> overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those 
>>> decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman 
>>> legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, 
>>> in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or 
>>> malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so 
>>> they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of 
>>> irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to 
>>> stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after 
>>> the fact.

This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind
of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-
night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine
Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a
list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt
for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered
enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team.

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.
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