fivethirtyeight.com - 2/4/2009
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The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that approximately 4,800 absentee ballots considered by the Coleman campaign to have been potentially wrongly rejected should be reviewed by the state. The Franken campaign, meanwhile, has its own list of roughly 770 ballots that may have been wrongly ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The Coleman team appears to be laying out
a continued strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy...
of the Minnesota election result by pointing to a fundamental underlying idea of this dispute: The margin of error is simply too big in a race this ...
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Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/5/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The Coleman legal team is continuing to review
the rejected absentee ballots one by one, spending this...
afternoon questioning Pine County Auditor Cathy Clemmer. One particular ballot came from a man whose ballot was tossed because he was not a ...
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Coleman Lawyer: Count The Prisoner's Vote
minnesotaindependent.com - 2/6/2009
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minnesotaindependent.com —
davidschultz1 Without a new state law requiring a
provisional election certificate in cases like Al Franken’s, Minnesota...
could be without its second U.S. senator for four to five months. That’s the opinion of Hamline University School of Law professor ...
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News. Politics. Media. » Unless Franken gets ...
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Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... My bad!
What happened to Daschle?
A possible replacement.
Stupidest. Suggestion.Ever.
Cool, the stimulus is getting larger.
But don't they know this will hurt NYC's economy?
Don't like the sound of this.
MN recount update.
OMG EVERYONE HATES OBAMA OMG!
Change you can believe in.
Morning Skim: Post-Daschle; Stimulus and Despair; Saving Media
Opinionator —
... is that Daschle came second. Second is exactly the wrong place to be. The malefactor who comes first gets away with it because the issue is new and we’re not entirely sure how angry we are supposed to be about it. The one who comes fourth or fifth likely gets away with it because we’ve started to get bored with the story line and, anyway, our bloodlust has been satisfied. But the malefactor who comes second feels the full fury of our wrath. FiveThirtyEight : Nate Silver explains why Norm Coleman’s win in the Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday probably won’t help his chances very ...
'The Ballot Universe': Where We Are as Week 2 Ends at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver, however, believes the absentee ballots are unlikely to save Coleman, because even if all of his ballots were allowed to be counted (a very big "if", since Coleman still has to make the case in court that they should be), it would be very difficult for him to gain the 226 net votes he'd need to overcome Franken's certified lead. ...
Coleman Attorney: 'I'm Done'; Concedes Franken 'Probably Still Ahead' After Contest Verdict
The BRAD BLOG —
... The 3-judge election contest panel may reach their verdict at any time. Among their decisions is expected to be a finding on whether another 2000 or so rejected absentee-ballots, submitted for consideration by both Coleman and Franken, were "legally cast" and if their results should be added to the final totals. Even so, statistics mavens --- and results of already-counted absentee ballots --- suggest that Coleman will likely have a difficult time closing the gap against Franken, even if all of those currently-uncounted ballots are counted and added to the totals. ...
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Court Gives Coleman Access to 4,800 More Ballots
briefingroom.thehill.com 2/3/2009 — Sen. Norm Coleman (R) received a qualified victory from the three-judge panel hearing his challenge to Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the Minnesota Senate race, granting him access to thousands of absentee ballots to help press his case that ...
The Good News for Coleman...
fivethirtyeight.com 1/7/2009 — ...is that the Minnesota Supreme Court's order (.pdf) today didn't make any judgment whatsoever about the merits of Coleman's case on absentee ballots. It merely said that the time to resolve these things is during an election contest, not during the ...
Coleman To Court: No, Don't Throw Out My Case
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/7/2009 — Team Coleman has just filed their formal opposition to the Franken campaign's motion to dismiss all of the various counts in the Coleman lawsuit, demonstrating a fundamental disagreement going on here: Team Franken insists that Coleman is bound to a ...
Don't Look Now, But ...
talkingpointsmemo.com 2/26/2009 — If you haven't been following Eric Kleefeld's bang-up coverage of the Minnesota Senate election saga at TPMDC (come to think of it, this fiasco pre-dates the launch of TPMDC and dates back to our TPM Election Central days -- just another reminder ...
Coleman speaks!
politico.com 12/23/2008 — Blog: For the first time since the Minnesota Senate recount began, Sen. Norm Coleman briefly talked to a Minneapolis TV station about the recount
Little Hope for Coleman
njdc.org 4/1/2009 — Politico reports, “Court leaves Coleman with little hope.” On Monday, I wrote that Coleman should do what is in his best interest and move along with his life. It seems that the courts agree.
Here’s the beginning of the article:
Democrats are hailing a ruling from a ...
Downballot: Staying alive, staying alive —
First Read 2/4/2009
MINNESOTA: “In a ruling that keeps alive Republican Norm Coleman's chances of overturning Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, a three-judge panel on Tuesday allowed him to bring evidence to trial that as many as 4,800 absentee ballots were wrongly ...
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