I'm on Republican mailing lists, on a know-your-enemy basis. I'm also a Minnesota resident, so I get the Minnesota GOP emails. I just got an email from them titled "Did you witness irregularities in your voting precinct?"
Hook baited, the fishing begins...
Here's the text as I received it (screw fair use):
We need your help. Did you notice any irregularities in your precinct on election day?
These irregularities include:
Military ballot difficulties
Absentee ballot voting difficulties (either in application or voting process)
Same day registrations / busses arriving at polling places
Excessive vouching
Machine malfunctions / jams
Unsecured ballots
Persons with more than one ballot
Unauthorized persons "assisting" voters in filling out ballots
Failure of election officials to properly establish voter registration (including improper identification, failure to check residency status, etc.)
Campaigning in the polling place
Unauthorized persons in the polling place
Voter intimidation inside/outside of polling place
If you personally encountered or observed irregularities in your precinct on election day, (blah blah contact info)
The idea of busloads of welfare bums being driven from precinct to precinct for same-day registration is an old GOP canard. I remember the Republican poll watcher being panicky about it when I was an election judge in 2004. It's ridiculous.
Vouching is part of the same day registration process in MN. If you don't have the right id, you can get a neighbor to vouch for you. It's a nice system, and I saw it used a few times when I was a judge.
Minnesota uses Scantron type voting machines that are extremely accurate and reliable. None of this touchscreen bullshit... at the end of the day, we have a nice count off the machine AND a box full of paper ballots in case of a recount. I used to work with this kind of machine for academic testing, and they're incredibly accurate and reliable.
Now, here's what we can expect... they're going to find one or two incidents of sort of barely questionableness, and then whip the Mighty Wurlitzer into an orgiastic frenzy of unfounded accusation. They MUST do this, because the Minnesota election system is probably the most reliable and fairest in the country. Ballots are ALWAYS handled by members of at least two different parties, and multiple people do every count and check. The machines are accurate, and same-day registration is clean and robust. There's just nowhere for the process to break down severely and systematically, unlike those barbarians in Ohio and Florida.
With a count that will be precise within a few hundred votes at most, there's no way Emmer can make up a 9000 vote deficit. So all that's left is hysteria.
This is a fishing trip, nothing more.