Election Integrity Watch
News reports from across the nation are revealing that voter fraud is a major issue plaguing our elections. Here in Minnesota, the 2008 US Senate race was decided by just 312 votes. Never in our state’s history did the words “every vote counts” ring so true. However, a cloud of doubt still hangs over the results. Post-election analysis showed that hundreds of ineligible felons voted in the election. Over 17,000 more ballots were counted than voters accounted for as having voted in our Statewide Voter Registration System. Over 23,000 addresses provided by Election Day registrants could not be verified. Voter rolls contained the names of non-citizens and deceased individuals.

Political analysts estimate that voter fraud may account for 3% of the vote in any given election.  Applying this statistic to Minnesota’s 2006 gubernatorial election, that would mean that we would have had over 66,000 fraudulent votes.  Remember that Governor Pawlenty won this election by just 21,000 votes.

In 2008, ACORN registered over 40,000 people to vote in Minnesota. While numerous other states have launched investigations of voter fraud by ACORN, Minnesota government officials have done nothing. To this day, our top elections official, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, has failed to satisfactorily explain the irregularities uncovered after the 2008 election. Our top law enforcement official, Attorney General Lori Swanson, has refused to investigate allegations of election irregularities.  Could this be because both Ritchie and Swanson were endorsed and supported by ACORN when they were elected to office?

It is has become clear that if we are to safeguard the integrity of the 2012 election, patriotic Minnesotans are going to have to do it themselves.  We have launched Election Integrity Watch so that concerned citizens can learn what to look for and report suspicious activities on Election Day.  Working together, we can help reduce the fraud that is undermining the legitimate votes of law-abiding Minnesotans.  Become part of the solution.  Join our Election Integrity Watch team today.