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briefingroom.thehill.com - 2/3/2009
Court Gives Coleman Access to 4,800 More Ballots
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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 they were inconsistently counted. The panel ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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?

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lasvegassun.com - 2/5/2009
Card-check bill waitin’ on Al Franken
— lasvegassun.com — Lisa Mascaro Thu, Feb 5, 2009 (2 a.m.) Washington— A top Democratic senator said Wednesday that the union-backed card-check bill will be taken up if and when Al Franken wins the contested Minnesota Senate race recount and joins the chamber. Iowa Sen. ... (more) Card-check bill waitin’ on Al Franken

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fivethirtyeight.com - 2/4/2009
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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