The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece today explaining the unbelievable inconsistencies and possible outright fraud that has taken place in the Minnesota senate race between incumbent republican Norm Coleman and democrat Stuart Smalley Al Franken.

Here’s a little sample:

Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

This is shaping up to be one of the most outrageous voting scandals in history. It doesn’t surprise me at all that a lying scumbag like Al Franken would cheat his way in to the senate, I’m just surprised there’s not a single honest democrat willing to speak out against what is clearly a bogus process.