Andy Birkey over at the Minnesota Independent (a blog well worth reading) did a great job reporting on this story on our own Mary Kiffmeyer’s effort to suppress voting in our State. Click on the title to read Andy's report.
Last election 2.9 million votes were cast in Minnesota. Kiffmeyer’s own “Minnesota Majority” offered rewards and trained hundreds of so called “poll watchers” for evidence of voter fraud. Yet only 26 people were found to have voted without the right to. That’s .000009 of all the votes cast for those of you who follow Mary’s advice and are home schooled.
And what is the cost for Kiffmeyer’s voter Id bill? Some suggest it’s upwards of $25,000,000 give or take, not counting the legal challenge that’s sure to come when you disenfranchise large groups of citizens like the elderly, college students and women living in shelters.
Kiffmeyer prepared a demonstration of how the system would work but the system broke down during her presentation so the dog and pony show will be presented at a later date presumably when she works out the bugs.
For those of us who were hoping to Kiffmeyer would focus on reducing state expenditures or dealing with the highest foreclosure rates in the state or even with creating some jobs in our area, we will just have to wait until Mary spends 25 million dollars to keep 26 people out of 2.9 million from voting.
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