campaignsilo.firedoglake.com - 12/12/2008
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Big news on the recount front today, all of it very good for Al Franken.
Good News Story #1: Both the Minnesota Independent and The UpTake report that the 133 Minneapolis ballots from the U of M precinct that were machine-counted on November 4 but went missing during the recount will in ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/12/2008
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Al Franken's chances of winning the Minnesota recount
may have just gone up astronomically. The state canvassing
board just voted unanimously that absentee ballots that were initially rejected because of clerical errors -- and the current estimate ...
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Franken Gets Big Win At Canvass Board
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
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Don't look now, but it looks like Al
Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race. A series
of developments in the last few days have given the very strong impression that Al is suddenly in a position to prevail -- and a resolution of the fight might ...
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Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/12/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Some good news for Al Franken: The state
canvasing board just voted unanimously to compensate for the
loss of those 133 missing ballots in Minneapolis by going back to the recorded Election Night vote totals for this precinct, sparing Al the loss of ...
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In Boost To Franken, Minnesota Restores Missing Ballots ...
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... asserts, noting that Blagojevich’s recorded tirade about “appreciation” indicates that the Obama team wasn’t playing ball with the governor’s corruption. Things are looking up for Franken thanks to the Minnesota Board of Canvassers’ granting Franken two favorable rulings today, Phoenix Woman argues at The Campaign Silo. If nothing else, the board’s decision strips Franken of its most potent argument: that the election was somehow unfair, RedState’s ...
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First Read 12/12/2008
From NBC's Mark MurrayIn the latest in the Coleman-Franken recount, Minnesota's canvassing board today 1) recommended that counties begin counting mistakenly rejected absentee ballots, and 2) voted to count the missing 133 ballots from a Minneapolis ...
The Caucus: Minn. Panel Rules on Rejected Ballots —
NYT > Politics 12/12/2008
Recounting the ballots has the potential to tip the balance in the close race, and the absentee ballot issue has been pushed for weeks by the campaign of Al Franken, a Democrat, who by most counts, is trailing Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent. > ...
Franken Gets a Break in Minnesota Recount —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/12/2008
Brad Haynes reports on the Senate race in Minnesota.
In what may be the most important decision of the Minnesota vote recount, the state Canvassing Board has asked county election boards to count all wrongly rejected absentee ballots cast in ...
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