MN court issues ruling on rejected absentee ballots
Published 2/3/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker
(CNN) – A three-judge Minnesota court ruled Tuesday that approximately 4,800 out of a total of nearly 12,000 rejected absentee ballots would be considered in Republican Norm Coleman's effort to retain his Senate seat.
"This is a victory for thousands of Minnesotans whose rejected absentee ballots will now be properly reviewed in this election," Ben Ginsberg, [...]
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