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dailykos.com - 1/7/2009
Coleman: Reject ballots from voters who did everything right
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Here's a gem from Norm Coleman's challenge of Al Franken's victory: On Election Day, election judges in several precincts failed to initial the backs of Ballots under their control as required by Minnesota law and failed to prevent the deposit of Ballots without such endorsement in the Ballot ...
politico.com - 1/6/2009
Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"
— politico.com — January 05, 2009 Categories: Minnesota Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered... the toughest language he has ever used in arguing that Norm Coleman s career in the Senate is finished. Norm Coleman will never ever ... (more) Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"

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Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/8/2009
Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won
— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — I've been reading through the lawsuit that Norm Coleman has filed against the result of the Minnesota... Senate race, and it's a marvelous thing. The complaint ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting ... (more) Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won

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powerlineblog.com - 1/7/2009
Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election
— powerlineblog.com — The media coverage of the events related to Minnesota's Senate election and subsequent recount has been so... poor that it is difficult to determine what happened. The erosion of Senator Coleman's approximately 700 vote lead over Al Franken on November ... (more) Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election

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Firedoglake:  Franken-Coleman Update: The Escalation of the Smears

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Franken-Coleman Update: The Escalation of the Smears
Firedoglake — ... As mentioned yesterday, Norm Coleman -- despite the near-certainty that he is going to have his ass handed back to him as very-expensively-prepared legal sashimi -- has done the will of his Republican masters and filed a contest of the recount, something he had said way back on November 5 that he would not do were he behind in the count. (How bogus is the contest? Here's one of the stronger arguments from it. Yeah, it's that pathetic.) Now that the contest has been made, expect to see Norm's media surrogates escalate their already intense effort to ...

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MN chief justice recuses self from selecting judges for Coleman suit — CNN Political Ticker 1/7/2009
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