MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS REVOKE MAYORAL ENDORSEMENT FOR SELF-PROCLAIMED SOCIALIST OMAR FATEH:

Although Fateh received 328 votes and Frey 227 votes, a review found that 176 votes were not counted due to an electronic voting system failure. Fateh won by a show-of-hands vote.

“What should’ve been an orderly, fair and transparent endorsement process instead became a textbook example of systematic dysfunction. One that disenfranchised members of our party, broke our own rules, and undermined trust both inside and outside the convention hall,” said one challenger, former DFL chair Mike Erlandson.

“According to the Minneapolis DFL’s respondents own brief, 176 votes were incorrectly not counted. If they had been, a third candidate, DeWayne Davis, would’ve been eligible for the second mayoral ballot. Because these errors were never corrected, everything that followed was likewise flawed,” Erlandson added.

Some DFL officials disagree that the outcome would have changed if the votes were counted.

“To say a violation has occurred is not enough to overturn an endorsement. To overturn an endorsement requires clear and convincing evidence that the violation was so significant that it would have materially changed the outcome,” co-chair of the Minneapolis DFL City Convention Dan Thomas-Commins said last week.

Fateh has been compared to New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as an equally anti-Israel, far-left socialist. The Minnesota Senate’s first Somali and Muslim member, Fateh promised to raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour, ban new charter schools, and push to implement an income tax if elected mayor.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power, to coin a phrase.