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Published 2/12/2009 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read
MINNESOTA: "In what could prove to be the most important day of the U.S. Senate election trial so far, lawyers for Al Franken and Norm Coleman will trade arguments today on whether several types of rejected absentee ballots should be reconsidered or rejected once and for all," the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes....( read more )
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