{"id":6665,"date":"2008-11-13T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2009-07-14T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:22:24","slug":"debunked-32-franken-ballots-in-a-car-story-is-complete-nonsense-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=6665","title":{"rendered":"Debunked: Republican’s ’32 Franken Ballots in a Car’ Story is Complete Nonsense, Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those following the nonsense being put forward by the GOP conspiracy theorists<\/a> (such as Sean Hannity, Norm Coleman, RedState blog, PowerLine blog, and all their fact-free friends), David Brauer at MinnPost.com<\/i><\/a> does a terrific job of debunking the whole “32 ballots driven around in an election director’s car for days” nonsense.<\/p>\n

They weren’t<\/i> driven around in her car, they weren’t<\/i> all votes for Franken, they weren’t “lost” for days, and the claim, which is being used by the national GOP at their conspiracy theory “Minnesota Recount” site<\/a> to prop up their unsubstantiated claims of a “stolen election,” turns out (surprise surprise) to be entirely false…<\/p>\n

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Specifically, as to the claims that 32 ballots were driven around for days in the car of Minneapolis Elections Director Cindy Reichert:<\/p>\n

1. The ballots were never<\/i> in her car.
\n2. The ballots were never in anyones<\/i> car for several days.
\n3. The ballots were never lost or forgotten, and spent Election Night until counting day in secure city facilities.<\/div>\n

See Brauer for the complete real<\/i> details on the story<\/a>, about which Sean Hannity spent a full two segments misreporting and misrepresenting on Fox “News” last night.<\/p>\n

Even the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, one time Republican VP short-lister was willing to forward the same, wholly inaccurate scam on Fox “News”, in response to Hannity’s persistent lies about it (See the video full video here<\/a>, read the text transcript here<\/a>.<\/em>):<\/p>\n

HANNITY: What about 32 absentee ballots all going to Franken, every one of them? Does that not concern you? Does that not sound like cheating?<\/p>\n

PAWLENTY: The Secretary of State in Minnesota has the authority over these matters, Minnesota has a reputation for clean and fair and good elections, we’ve got 4,100 precinct run by volunteers, they do a good job and we thank them. However, these disportionate patterns are a problem, and finding 32 ballots in the trunk of a car supposedly forgetting that they were there is suspicious.<\/p><\/div>\n

Even though Brauer’s piece, debunking the entire affair, was posted yesterday at noon, it looks like the NRSC tin-foiler hatters haven’t yet gotten around to adding it to their conspiracy theory site in order to correct the inaccurate information they’d presented previously. Nor has the WSJ<\/i> retracted or corrected yesterday’s bullshit, unbylined (hi John Fund!) editorial<\/a> which charged, “Democrats [were] stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken” by charging that “Minneapolis’s director of elections [had] forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car.”<\/p>\n

Pathetic. Nonetheless, we again renew our offer to both<\/i> Republicans and Democrats alike to help them try to ensure an accurate recount, if<\/i> they actually want one, by first pointing them towards this helpful article<\/a> we wrote over the weekend. All signs, however, show that Republicans have little interest in any such thing.<\/p>\n

(Hat-tip VelvetRevolution.us’<\/a> Steve Heller<\/em>)<\/p>\n

As long promised, The BRAD BLOG<\/a> has covered your electoral system 2008, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with a donation<\/a> to help us keep going. If you like, we’ll send you some great, award-winning election integrity documentary films in return! Details on that right here…<\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those following the nonsense being put forward by the GOP conspiracy theorists (such as Sean Hannity, Norm Coleman, RedState blog, PowerLine blog, and all their fact-free friends), David Brauer at MinnPost.com does a terrific job of debunking the whole “32 ballots driven around in an election director’s car for days” nonsense. They weren’t driven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-franken","category-wall-street-journal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}