As promised in its press release, yesterday the Minnesota DFL posted the final decision of its Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee (CBRC) nullifying the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Omar Fateh in this fall’s mayoral election. The press release still refers to the final decision as a draft, but it now links to the decision.
The Free Beacon’s Matthew Xiao reports on the decision in “‘Cheating, Favoritism, and Excluding Votes’: Socialist Mayoral Hopeful Known as ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ Loses Dem Party Endorsement Over Election Irregularities.” Of special interest is Minnesota Reformer editor Patrick Coolican’s story “Dems in disarray: DFL revocation of Fateh endorsement polarizes party.”
What could go wrong? Coolican writes:
The [ruling] details an electronic voting system that the committee calls “substantially flawed.” The narrative describes an old version of the spreadsheet software Excel, powered by broken formulas, and a massive undercounting during the first round of voting. Hours of challenges and delay followed. The credentials sheet was left unsecured and apparently accessed by people who shouldn’t have had access, including the campaigns. Another candidate, DeWayne Davis, secured enough votes to move on to the next round but was wrongly excluded. The entire Ward 5 credentials book was lost. The final vote was a show of hands.
What we have here is something like the expressive form of DFL governance in a one-party city and in the state during the 2023-2024 period of “let’s go crazy” of DFL dominance.
