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Published 12/11/2008 by Mark Murray at First Read

From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn the latest movement in never-ending Senate recount between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, the state canvassing board will meet tomorrow to decide the fate of hundreds of improperly rejected absentee ballots, as well as 133 missing ballots in a Minneapolis precinct. And before this possibly pivotal hearing, the back-and-forth between the Coleman and Franken campaigns has gone ... viral. Yesterday, the Franken campaign released a YouTube video of voters complaining...( read more ) (link)

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