fivethirtyeight.com - 12/31/2008
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UPDATE (8:45 PM): The Uptake (as usual) has better and more recent info than I do. Coleman is requesting the following: -778 absentee ballots OPENED on the basis of recommendations from local election officials. -544 absentee ballots LOOKED at more closely before they are opened (or not) -67 ...
thehill.com - 1/2/2009
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thehill.com —
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) threatened Friday to filibuster
any attempt to seat Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Al
Franken next week. The newly minted National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman said he had not whipped votes in the ...
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Cornyn promises filibuster on Franken seating
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/31/2008
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Al Franken could be declared the winner of
the Minnesota recount as soon as Monday, but due
to the peculiarities of Minnesota election law, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) could keep the seat bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months before a ...
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Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep ...
startribune.com - 12/29/2008
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Hullabaloo —
... the victory of Al Franken today, putting him ahead by 50 votes with only a handful of wrongly disqualified absentee ballots left to count. The working rule from the state Supreme Court is that both the Franken and Coleman campaigns have to agree on allowing a ballot to be counted, and that is predictably going unwell. Of the 1,360 ballots that local election officials have cited as eligible for counting, Coleman is asking for just a portion to be counted, and most of them come from areas that voted for him in big numbers. They also want to look at ballots that officials did ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update, 12/30/08: Like Sands Through The Hourglass
Firedoglake —
... as of today), and with the wrongly-rejected "fifth pile" absentee ballots likely to add to Franken's lead (and thus make Coleman's planned legal challenges look even more silly and weaselly), Norm Coleman has all but run out of tricks. He has one left, and that's ...
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By Eric Black | Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
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dailykos.com 1/2/2009 — The open question in Minnesota's Senate race is no longer who will win, but when he will be seated. As TPM's Eric Kleefeld outlines , Al Franken has effectively won, but because Norm Coleman is playing the part of a sore loser, Minnesota's senate ...
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ace.mu.nu 12/19/2008 — « WikiLeaks Posts Technical Details of Bomb-Stopping Frequency-Jammers Which Have Reduced Killings in Iraq | Main | Heritage Foundation Co-Founder Paul Weyrich Dies » Agita: Coleman Spokesman Predicts Al Franken Will Take Lead in Recount for First ...
Coleman Running Out of Options in Minn. Race
newsmax.com 12/31/2008 — The counting of improperly rejected absentee ballots will probably increase Democratic challenger Al Franken's lead over incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman according to a new analysis of voting trends, effectively relegating Coleman to filing lawsuits ...
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 ...
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