A Study May Have Uncovered a Senate Election Fraud

Elections are considered an important and historical event for every place because it determines and appoints leaders who will be serving and guiding the people to better life. One very serious controversy during elections is the existence of flying voters or election fraud. It is considered a form of election cheating and should be given enough attention as it can really alter the election results. Staging a nationwide election is a very complicated task but keeping it clean and maintaining integrity is harder and more complicated.

After 6 months of election recounts and reviews, Democrat Al Franken was proclaimed winner of the US senate seat over Republican Norm Coleman. Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group responsible for checking election fraud, found out in a recent study that the winning votes that Mr. Franken got came from an unlikely group of votes. These voters were in fact convicted felons who illegally casted their votes which account for the winning votes that Mr. Franken got.

The 18-month old study indicated that at least 341 felony convicts voted illegally in Minnesota’s twin cities. The vote count declared Mr. Franken to have gotten a 312-vote lead over Coleman. The number indicates that if the 341 illegal votes were removed, Coleman would have resulted as the winner. The study used the conviction list which was publicly available to compare with the election vote results. Worst of all, state and federal authorities may not seem interested in these findings.

The election’s credibility is put to the test and officials aren’t quite concerned of this form of cheating. The group already passed the results of their study to the state authorities but officials instead belittled the information stating that it was inaccurate and was deemed wrong. The group, Minnesota Majority already did a recheck and a manual count and results were still the same. There is in fact a massive election cheating going on and felony criminals are the one initiating it.

One problem seen is that of the 899 suspected felons, only 3 are charged with the crime and more are still awaiting trial. It would best for state prosecutors to speed up the judicial process and give the appropriate punishments to those criminals. It would also help lessen or eliminate election fraud. It may have impacted the elections of today, but what’s important is that we learn from our mistakes now and strive hard to make the next election more credible and raise its level of integrity.