politico.com - 12/5/2008
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Blog: With all the precincts re-counted in the Minnesota Senate race, Franken campaign attorney Marc Elias is predicting Franken leads Sen. Norm Coleman
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/3/2008
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In a briefing going on right now with
reporters, Al Franken's lead recount lawyer Marc Elias made...
a stunning announcement: According to the campaign's methodology of tracking the recount results, they believe Al Franken now leads Norm Coleman by a ...
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Franken Camp's Claim: We're Now Ahead!
huffingtonpost.com - 12/3/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Aides to Al Franken's senatorial campaign announced on
Wednesday that, for the first time since the recount...
began, they were actually ahead of Sen. Norm Coleman. Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Franken's chief counsel Marc Elias said ...
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Franken Ahead 22 Votes Now, Campaign Says
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/5/2008
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Four votes. That's how many votes the Franken
campaign just said they're leading Norm Coleman by, with...
the hand recount now officially finished. In other words, with every single precinct in Minnesota now done counting (except for the one where ...
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Franken Camp's Claim: The Hand Count Is Over -- And ...
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MN-Sen: Recount finished! (Kind of)
Daily Kos —
... The state canvassing board will meet on December 16 to review those challenged ballots. If they were to affirm the decision of local election judges on every one of those challenges, then the Franken campaign claims it would win by four votes. That number does not include the 133 missing ballots from a Minneapolis precinct that have likely cost Franken about 36 votes. A state election official has said that if the ballots aren't found, they would probably ...
Franken Claims 4 Vote Lead Over Coleman
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Politico has the story:
With all but one precinct re-counted in the Minnesota Senate race, Franken campaign attorney Marc Elias is claiming Franken leads Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) by four votes.
The number from Franken's internal tally does not include the Minneapolis precinct where 133 ballots went missing. The Franken count also does not include the thousands of disputed ballots that both campaigns objected to during the recount process.
The official Secretary of State count, as reported by the Minneapolis ...
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