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article.nationalreview.com - 2/4/2009
Editors: Remember Count Every Vote?
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D emocrats want to declare an end to the Minnesota Senate race, with Al Franken the winner and Norm Coleman the sore loser. In an appearance with Franken last week, Harry Reid averred: The race in Minnesota is over with. . . . There s no way the election results are going to change. This is ...
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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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/5/2009
Coleman Lawyer: Count The Prisoner's Vote
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — 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 ... (more) Coleman Lawyer: Count The Prisoner's Vote

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Power Line:  Twelve thoughts on the election contest order

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Twelve thoughts on the election contest order
Power Line — ... 10. Franken's and the Democrats' interest in counting every ballot disappeared a long time ago. The Minnesota Supreme Court entered orders related to the recount that essentially reserved the two issues before the election contest panel for the election contest phase of the election. The assertion by Franken and Democrats elsewhere that the election is over (Harry Reid: "The race in Minnesota is over with. . . .There's no way the election results are going to change") has been made in bad faith. ...

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Is Coleman Litigating For Franken Votes?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/8/2009 — The Coleman campaign appears to have found a genuine example of a particular type of absentee ballot being treated differently throughout the state, in their central claim of Equal Protection -- but it seems like they're effectively fishing for votes ...
Coleman Lawyer: It's Not Over -- We've Found Two New Ballots!
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/8/2009 — It really does seem like the Minnesota Senate race is never going to end. At a post-court press conference this evening, Coleman lawyer Ben Ginbserg announced that Washington County elections official Kevin Corbid had just informed the court that ...
Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Playing it Straight — The Moderate Voice
Alan Abramowitz on Playing it Straight: The Minnesota Model of Election Administration Late night comics have feasted on the disputed U.S. Senate race between the incumbent Norm Coleman and the Democratic challenger and former comedian Al Franken. News coverage has ridiculed the ...
Judge Puts Coleman Back In Minnesota Senate Race — Say Anything
Al Franken, call your office. ST. PAUL, Minn. – The judges in Minnesota’s Senate election trial threw Republican Norm Coleman a lifeline on Tuesday, opening the door to adding nearly 5,000 rejected absentee ballots to a race that Democrat Al Franken leads by just 225 votes. It ...
Meanwhile, in Minnesota... — Politics Daily
Yes, I know it's all Daschle today, but there is still (yes still) a senate race to be decided between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, and Coleman just posted a very big "get" today. AOL: The judges in Minnesota's Senate election trial threw Republican Norm Coleman a lifeline on Tuesday, opening ...
Franken Asks Court to Put Him in Senate Now — Drudge Retort
Lawyers for Democrat Al Franken told Minnesota's highest court Thursday that he should be certified as the winner of his tight Senate race with Republican Norm Coleman -- without waiting the months it may take for the courts to resolve Coleman's separate lawsuit over the recount, which gave ...
Judge Denise Reilly during the Minnesota Senate race recount trial. — truthout
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More Recounting in Minnesota — The Page by Mark Halperin
Judges in the Coleman-Franken Senate race trial begin individually examining thousands of rejected absentee ballots. Comes after Tuesday ruling that Coleman's lawyers can present evidence on almost 4,800 ballots.       
Court Gives Coleman Access to 4,800 More Ballots — News
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 ...
Former Pres. (George H.W.) Bush Writes Coleman to Offer Support — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]The Hill[/b] Former President George H.W. Bush got involved in Minnesota's still-contested Senate race, writing Sen. Norm Coleman (R) on Thursday to lend his support in his election challenge to Democrat Al Franken. "I have been following the developments in Minnesota for some ...
Franken in waiting: Says he's ready to join Senate (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Al Franken said Friday he's frustrated but not bitter that a lawsuit by Norm Coleman is keeping him out of the U.S. Senate, and is working hard to keep up with issues in the meantime.