Ken Berwitz

They're stealing Norm Coleman's senate seat and handing it to Al Franken.  Right in front of our eyes. 

Here are key excerpts from the latest Minneapolis Star-Tribune article on this theft-in-progress.  FYI, the Star-Tribune backed Coleman, which makes its incredibly dishonest headline about the recount fluctuating thoroughly inexplicable.  The bold print is mine:

Tension escalates as recount fluctuates

As Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken was cut to 221 votes, charges flew as fast as the tally changed.

By MARK BRUNSWICK, Star Tribune

A tiny town in the Democratic stronghold of Minnesota's Iron Range emerged Friday as the latest battleground over the state's disputed U.S. Senate race.

Democrat Al Franken gained 100 votes there between election night and when results were officially tallied on Thursday.

Adding to the intrigue -- and suspicion in Sen. Norm Coleman's camp: The time stamp on the official tape printed out by a ballot machine in the precinct in question carried a date of Nov. 2, two days before the election.

Election officials in Mountain Iron, Minn., and St. Louis County said Friday they are confident the final vote totals were correct. They chalked up the time-stamp discrepancy to a voting machine whose clock may have been improperly set or been running low on batteries.

In the midst of the unresolved election -- the tightest U.S. Senate race in Minnesota history, with a recount in the offing -- the Mountain Iron confusion is the latest wrinkle. The difference between Coleman and Franken, which stood at 725 votes in Coleman's favor Wednesday morning, has changed several times since then as county officials have checked results, and was 221 by Friday evening.

An election night worksheet from St. Louis County showed Franken with 406 votes from Precinct 1 in Mountain Iron. The revised totals Thursday night showed him with 506. Similarly, the vote total for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama increased from 469 to 569 when the final tallies were completed. Both Democrats won the precinct by a ratio of more than 2-to-1.

"Obviously, this is highly suspicious. They found 100 votes, and it's statistically impossible that all 100 votes went to the two Democrats, even in St. Louis County," said Cullen Sheehan, Coleman's campaign manager.

The Coleman campaign, questioning "improbable and statistically dubious chunks of votes [that] appear and disappear," sent letters Friday afternoon asking for records on ballot security and on any revisions of election night vote totals to the Minnesota Secretary of State's office and to each of the state's county auditors.

They are doing it in full view, folks.  And most of us are either entirely ignorant that it is happening (thank you Democratic-dominated media) or viewing it with with equanimity and detachment. 

What happened to our country?

UPDATE:  In case you think this is an isolated incident, here's another:

ST. Paul, Minn. (AP) Sen. Norm Coleman has failed in an attempt to block 32 absentee ballots from Hennepin County from being counted in his close race with Democrat Al Franken.

Coleman’s campaign asked Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin to issue a temporary restraining order in regard to counting of the ballots.

Gearin says she denied the request Saturday for lack of jurisdiction.

Coleman’s campaign says it made the request after new ballots “suddenly appeared” in a heavily Democratic precinct. It says the ballots had not been secured and counting them would violate state rules.