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Franken Campaign Pushes to Expand Minnesota Recount
Brad Haynes reports on the election. With the manual recount winding up in Minnesota’s Senate race, Al Franken ’s campaign is pressing election officials to take a closer look at many more ballots. Franken’s top lawyer, Marc Elias , said in a midday call with reporters that the campaign believes a few hundred ballots around the state are missing, based on local press accounts. Furthermore, the campaign sees valid but uncounted ballots among the thousands of absentee ballots rejected ...
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com — As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more... and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ... (more) Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
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Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
startribune.com — Blog: The Big Question Here’s one way to send a protest with your ballot This Anoka County... voter was clearly ready for the end of campaign season. This ballot has an almost poetic quality. In case you have trouble reading it, the poem goes like this, ... (more) Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount
briefingroom.thehill.com — Democrat Al Franken's campaign said Monday that as many as 1,000 absentee ballots were improperly disqualified in... Minnesota's Senate race, and that it may appeal to courts or the U.S. Senate to order those ballots counted. "Wherever the numbers stand ... (more) Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount
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Minnesota Senate recount update, update VIII
Power Line — ... Elsewhere the Journal reports that the Franken campaign has purportedly obtained information from 66 Minnesota counties on 6,432 rejected absentee ballots. It concedes that most of those ballots were properly rejected, but has forwarded an affidavit containing examples of improperly rejected ballots to the Canvassing Board. (Duchschere also reports on the mysterious appearance and disappearance of ballots during the recount in Becker County and in Crystal.) ...

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