Franken(steining) Voters in Minnesota
With the balance in the Senate on the line, I’ve been trying very hard to watch what is coming out of our neighbor state of Minnesota. And I’ve been somewhat appalled. With only a few hundred votes seperating the two competitors out of several million votes, I expected there to be some court battles and such for rejected votes.
But somebody needs to draw the line. The Franken campaign went to court recently demanding that the state turn over the list of abentee voters whose ballots had been rejected so that they could contact them. Yes. CONTACT them. Isn’t our voting system supposed to be anonymous? Regardless of who you voted for, would you want them or their opponent knowing who you are? Doesn’t open doors for some really nasty business?
How long will it be before we start hearing stories about the voter who got threatening calls? And I’m not pointing fingers at Franken or his campaign here. It’s just as likely to happen no matter who the candidate is. How I vote is a private matter. There is no reason for the candidates to have any of that information. If my ballot is so indecipherable as to make who I voted for unknowable, then I should have been better about making my vote.