In Minnesota, votes are appearing, seemingly out of thin air, for the liberal Senate candidate (and onetime comedian) Al Franken. Attorney Scott Johnson says that “the election appears to be in the process of being stolen.”

Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman led in election-day results, but his lead keeps shrinking and shrinking, and is now down to an infinitesmal 200 votes out of more than 2 million votes cast.

For example, a bunch of new votes suddenly appeared in Minnesota’s Mountain Iron precinct. But as Attorney John Hinderaker notes, “Mountain Iron uses optical scanning, so the Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the tape documenting the ballots cast on election night. St. Louis County responded by providing a tape that includes the newly-added 100 votes, and is dated November 2–the Sunday before the election. St. Louis County reportedly denies being able to produce the genuine tape from election night, even though Minnesota law, as I understand it, requires that tape to be signed by the election judges and publicly displayed.”

(As John Lott notes, it’s doubtful that the new votes are valid, but previously overlooked, ballots. If they were, one would expect the vote totals for other candidates, not just Franken, to rise as well. But even as new votes for Franken suddenly appear, other vote totals remain almost the same. Franken is getting nearly 3 times as many “newly-discovered” votes as Obama, for example.)

Minnesota’s Secretary of State, who oversees the election process, was backed by the left-wing groups MoveOn.Org and ACORN. (ACORN has a long history of voter fraud and financial fraud).

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Thousands of out-of-state college students have illegally registered to vote in swing states like Virginia, even while registering, and applying for absentee ballots, in their home state as well.  Forty such names have already been forwarded to Virginia State Police. 

This process has been abetted by Virginia’s liberal governor, Tim Kaine, and his chief of staff, who did so in response to complaints by the Obama campaign, over protests by local voting officials across the political spectrum.

Kaine appointees attempted to illegally block the counting of military absentee ballots, based on a technicality preempted by federal law, even as they ordered local voting officials to disregard state law by allowing out-of-state college students to vote in Virginia elections. 

Virginia’s attorney general, Bob McDonnell, has now issued an opinion concluding that those military votes must in fact be counted.

In Virginia’s liberal Fairfax County, officials are illegally discarding absentee ballots cast by members of the military based on a technical requirement that is preempted by federal law.  Meanwhile, people who live out-of-state are being allowed to vote (some people have boasted of being registered to vote, and voting, both in Virginia and another state) in Virginia elections, contrary to state law, based on instructions from liberal state voting officials and false claims by liberal advocacy groups.

The Washington Examiner reports on October 24 that “Fairfax County elections officials are rejecting about 200 overseas ballots, many of them from members of the military, saying the voters failed to observe a minor technicality in filling out their absentee forms.”  As retiring Congressman Tom Davis notes, that technicality “violates federal law” through its “disparate treatment of overseas voters.” 

“The State Board of Elections last week instructed county officials to adhere to the letter of the [state] law,” even though it is preempted by contrary federal law.  Officials at the State Board of elections are appointed by liberal Governor Tim Kaine.

Meanwhile, that same Board of Elections ordered Norfolk registrar Elisa J. Long to ignore state law by allowing college students not domiciled in Virginia to register and vote in Virginia elections.

The military votes in Fairfax County are being discarded by long-time Democratic operative Rokey Suleman, who became the Fairfax County registrar (a supposedly non-partisan position) after long being “active in Ohio Democratic politics.”   Suleman earlier sent staffers into the Fairfax County jail to register criminals to vote.

People openly boast about fraudulently registering to vote in Virginia, a swing state, even though they actually live, and are registered to vote, in other states.  The Norfolk, Virginia election board tried to do something about that, by making sure that people registering to vote in Virginia actually do live in the state.  One way it did that was to send questionnaires to students who came from out-of-state to attend Virginia colleges, and then registered in Virginia, to see if those students really qualify as Virginia residents.   It had every right to do that under federal court rulings, which hold that it is perfectly OK to require such proof of domicile (permanent residence) from everyone, students included.

However, the Obama campaign protested this, even though the Norfolk, Virginia election board is comprised primarily of Democrats, and represent a liberal stronghold.   In response, state officials appointed by Virginia’s liberal governor, Tim Kaine, ordered the Norfolk election board not to send any more questionnaires to confirm students’ domicile, even though state election law requires domicile as a condition for voting and registration.  The Norfolk board has followed this order under protest, even though it believes it violates state election law.

Now, the ACLU is bombarding local election officials (such as voting registrars) with letters falsely claiming that the Supreme Court has ruled that students can register to vote, no questions asked, based on their temporary student residence — even if they are from out-of-state, have out-of-state license plates, pay taxes out-of-state, and recently registered to vote in another state.

Similarly, the Obama campaign is telling students that if they attend school in one state, but have a permanent residence in another, they can register in either state of their choosing — a virtual invitation to commit vote fraud.

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The upcoming election has given me new relatives, all of them imaginary.  The Obama campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation calls my house on an almost daily basis, trying to reach people who don’t live there, like Cyrus and Hassan Bader.  But I’ve never heard of either of them, even though I share their last name.  The Obama people have also tried repeatedly to reach my 18-month old daughter Sarah.

I live in a liberal bastion, Arlington, Virginia, where high voter turnout favors the Democratic Party.  The Party hopes to achieve its “80-80 strategy” – getting Arlington voter turnout up to a record 80 percent, and getting 80 percent of those voters to vote Democratic.  Cyrus and Hassan may be imaginary, but votes cast in their name may enable the Party to reach its goal.  Imaginary voters have sometimes ended up on voting rolls as part of voter registration drives by the left-wing activist group ACORN, which has a long history of voter fraud.  (ACORN also hires felons, registers voters using the names of minors, and registers the same voters under many different names). 

Protections against voter fraud have been weakened in Virginia as officials appointed by the state’s liberal governor, Tim Kaine, have ordered local elections boards not to check voter qualifications, such as proof of domicile, drawing protests even from liberal election officials.  People have boasted of voting in Virginia elections despite living out-of-state and being registered in other states.

Virginia is a key battleground state in this election, with polls showing Obama and McCain very close to each other in the polls.  My family has gotten many calls from political campaigns.  That includes my 18-month-old daughter Sarah.  The Obama campaign has repeatedly attempted to contact Sarah, as part of its get-out-the-vote-effort, despite my wife’s explanation that she is not old enough to vote.

I hope that no one has registered to vote in Sarah’s name.   I’ve called the Arlington County Office of Voter Registration to try to find out if she has been fraudulently registered to vote by an entity like the left-wing activist group ACORN, which has a long history of voter fraud and registering voters using the names of minors.  (When I called, I was instructed to leave a message, which I did).

In an effort to increase liberal turnout and influence the outcome of the election, Virginia state election officials appointed by Governor Tim Kaine have been disregarding state election laws, drawing objections even from electoral boards in liberal strongholds like Norfolk.  As the liberal Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reported,  

“Norfolk election officials on Friday reluctantly loosened procedures for registering college students to vote after protests from presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign and an admonishment from state election officials.  The Illinois senator’s campaign complained that the Norfolk registrar’s policy of sending a questionnaire to anyone applying to register from a college campus discouraged students from following through. The State Board of Elections asked general registrar Elisa J. Long to halt the practice.”

“The Norfolk Electoral Board agreed to that but said in a statement: ‘This compliance is with the understanding that the Board strongly feels that by doing so, we are out of compliance with Virginia Election Laws.’”

“Long said the questionnaire had been used to determine domicile and was based on suggested questions from the state elections office. Abode is address. ‘The frustration is that the code says you may ask questions to help you make the determination of domicile, yet now we’re being told we cannot use a questionnaire,’ Long said. ‘Domicile is a tricky question; we don’t consider any one thing,’ she said. Questions included whether the students pay out-of-state tuition, pay Virginia income taxes or have a Virginia driver’s license. Long said she does not know how a student’s residency status now will be determined.”

Some people have openly boasted of fraudulently voting in Virginia elections even while being registered to vote in another state as well.  One said, “I am a student at Old Dominion. I am registered to vote in two states. I own a house out of state, I rent in Virginia, and I have drivers licenses from both states . . . I go to school with many foreign students and I know two who are registered to vote, and they are not citizens.  I know Virginia gives out drivers licenses to thousands of illegal immigrants and it is not difficult to obtain the documentation to be able to vote.  I know the system cannot be fixed too, and honestly I don’t want it to. After 8 years of Bush we need change and a voice to represent those who are oppressed.”  Partisan manipulation of election law is occurring in other battleground states as well.