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Canvassing Board meets today about rejected absentee ballots
Canvassing Board meets today about rejected absentee ballots
Jennifer Simonson, Star Tribune Ramsey County election judge Ann Berres took a moment upon hearing her table would need to count again.
Rejected absentee votes may decide it
Rejected absentee votes may decide it
startribune.com — Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune The recount in the U.S. Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken continued Saturday morning at the Dakota County Judicial Center in Hastings. (more) Rejected absentee votes may decide it
Rejected absentee votes may decide it
Rejected absentee votes may decide it
startribune.com — Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune The recount in the U.S. Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken continued Saturday morning at the Dakota County Judicial Center in Hastings. (more) Rejected absentee votes may decide it
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Hugh Hewitt: Norm, Saxby and Arlen
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... There are less than 4,000 challenged ballots to be reviewed by the five member State Canvassing Board , so a very clear picture of the final result should be available soon, just in time for the Georgia runoff next week. Saxby Chambliss appears on today's program, and the Chuck Schumer-led Senate Dems are pouring cash into Georgia to try and get closer to 60. Please consider one last gift of $25, $50 or $100 to ...

Hugh Hewitt: Norm, Saxby and Arlen
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... There are less than 4,000 challenged ballots to be reviewed by the five member State Canvassing Board , so a very clear picture of the final result should be available soon, just in time for the Georgia runoff next week. Saxby Chambliss appears on today's program, and the Chuck Schumer-led Senate Dems are pouring cash into Georgia to try and get closer to 60. Please consider one last gift of $25, $50 or $100 to ...

Key Franken Request On Recount Denied
TPM Election Central — ... In a setback for Al Franken's chances in the Minnesota recount, the state canvassing board has just rejected the Franken camp's request that the board review the thousands of rejected absentee ballots and potentially re-admit ballots that might have been excluded because of clerical errors -- keeping any such ballots out of the count for now. ...

Franken Camp: We're Down 73 Votes, Will Pursue Legal Actions If Needed
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The number is not based on the Secretary of State website or other sources (where the difference is listed at more than 250) but rather the findings of neutral election observers who are on the ground in state counties. In these counts, it should be noted, Coleman has challenged more ballots -- accounting for the larger deficit that Franken faces in the official count. ...

Franken Camp: We're Down 73 Votes, May Pursue Legal Action
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The number is not based on the Secretary of State website or other sources (where the difference is listed at more than 250) but rather the findings of neutral election observers who are on the ground in state counties. In these counts, it should be noted, Coleman has challenged more ballots -- accounting for the larger deficit that Franken faces in the official count. ...

Franken's Lawyer Tells BuzzFlash It'll Soon Be Over. Meanwhile, "Seat the Senator" Contestants Still Wait
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... to the Minnesota Supreme Court decision on the election certificate:"This wise ruling will ensure that Harry Reid, Al Franken and Chuck Schumer cannot short-circuit Minnesota law in their partisan power play."Coleman's supporters on the national level have been more concerned with counting votes in the U.S. Senate than with counting absentee ballots in Minnesota, and that concern shows up in Coleman‘s legal arguments. In the initial recount battle when Coleman was still ahead, his lawyers were resistant to including every ballot . Later, when he fell behind Franken, ...

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