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Coleman Lawyer: Count The Prisoner's Vote
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 resident of the county. Well, he was a resident ...
Coleman Says 'God Wants Me to Serve'
Coleman Says 'God Wants Me to Serve'
blog.lib.umn.edu — While Al Franken remains fairly elusive, Norm Coleman is keeping a high profile these days as his court challenge of the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount plods along. Coleman is adept, somewhat too adept, his critics might say, at skillfully tailoring... (more) Coleman Says 'God Wants Me to Serve'
Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
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 ... (more) Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
Absentee Ballots Unlikely to Save Coleman
fivethirtyeight.com — 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 ... (more) Absentee Ballots Unlikely to Save Coleman
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Coleman Pushes for Prisoner Vote
Talking Points Memo — ... Sen. Coleman's lawyers are pushing to include an absentee ballot from a man who voted in Pine County even though he was a resident of another county. Now they're arguing that the ballot should be included because even though the voter lived in a different county, at the time of the election, he was in the Pine County jail. ...

Disgruntled loser pushes for prisoner vote
WTF Is It Now?!? — hiny-ass titty-baby Norm Coleman is pushing to include an absentee ballot from a man who voted in Pine county even though he was a resident of another, a ballot from an illegal immigrant's dog, and one from a homeless man who thinks he's a tree. ...

'The Ballot Universe': Where We Are as Week 2 Ends at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG — ... arguments have been (including arguments to include many ballots that they'd previously argued to reject during the post-election hand-count phase), there was one rejected absentee ballot, that Coleman would now like counted, which came from a guy in jail. He was sent a ballot for the county he was serving time in, instead of his actual county of residence, so the ballot was rejected. And in either case, convicted felons aren't allowed to vote in MN. But Coleman wants it counted. Notes Kleefeld: "just imagine the media outcry that would have occurred if a Democrat were waging ...

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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 ...
'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
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Coleman Actually Getting Somewhere Today?
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Franken asks Minn. court to put him in Senate nowmsnbc.com: Politics 2/5/2009
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