fivethirtyeight.com - 12/31/2008
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In St. Louis County, one of the bluest areas in Minnesota, the Coleman campaign succeeded in blocking more than a third of absentee ballots set aside by the state for potentially being wrongfully rejected from being counted -- including one ballot from an elections judge. Per the Star Tribune : ...
thehill.com - 1/2/2009
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thehill.com —
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) threatened Friday to filibuster
any attempt to seat Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Al
Franken next week. The newly minted National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman said he had not whipped votes in the ...
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Cornyn promises filibuster on Franken seating
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/31/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Al Franken could be declared the winner of
the Minnesota recount as soon as Monday, but due
to the peculiarities of Minnesota election law, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) could keep the seat bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months before a ...
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Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep ...
startribune.com - 12/29/2008
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Franken-Coleman Recount: Equal Protection?
Firedoglake —
... , Norm Coleman's last big trick up his sleeve -- before he decides to actually do a full-on set of lawsuits -- is to try and use the Minnesota Supreme Court's foolishly-trusting nature against the Franken campaign, by setting up one set of standards for challenging "fifth pile" ballots in Democratic counties and a totally different, and more lenient, set of standards for Republican counties. And as Nate Silver reports, the Franken campaign, in St. Louis County at least, might be letting the Coleman people get away with it. Or are they? ...
MN-Sen: The insanity continues
Daily Kos —
... aside Tuesday in St. Louis County, objected to Graham's ballot on the grounds that the date next to her signature did not match the date next to the signature of her witness, Jack Armstrong. In other words, the Coleman campaign rejected 59 of a total of 161 absentee ballots in question - an alarmingly high number, and one we can be rather certain won't be duplicated in Republican-leaning counties. Are the Coleman challenges legit? It doesn't seem so. From Nate Silver: There are a couple of things in the preceding paragraphs ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 12/23/2008 — In a 26-page response (.pdf) filed on Monday with the Minnesota Supreme Court, Al Franken's campaign disputes Norm Coleman's claim that a significant number of ballots were double-counted in Minnesota, chiding Coleman's petition for a lack of ...
Count every vote, Republican style
powerlineblog.com 1/22/2009 — When the canvas of local tallies was completed by local election officials after election day, Al Franken trailed Norm Coleman by roughly the same number of votes that Coleman trails Franken following the recount (225). Some twelve thousand absentee ...
The Recount Is Over
powerlineblog.com 12/7/2008 — With all votes now recounted, Norm Coleman has been re-elected to the Senate. I think. The Minnesota Secretary of State shows Coleman leading by 687 votes with 99.98% of precincts reporting--all but one. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman ...
Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
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By Eric Black | Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
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Court Gives Coleman Access to 4,800 More Ballots
briefingroom.thehill.com 2/3/2009 — 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 ...
Editors: Remember Count Every Vote?
article.nationalreview.com 2/4/2009 — 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 ...
Is Al Franken Winning by 22 Votes?
weeklystandard.com 12/4/2008 — With 93 percent of votes recounted, the Minneapolis Star Tribune showed Norm Coleman ahead by 303 votes , but at a press conference today, the Franken campaign claimed that their candidate leads Coleman by 22 votes.
Why the different numbers?
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Franken's lead now 49 votes —
First Read 12/31/2008
From NBC's Carrie Dann A quick update from the Minnesota Senate recount: AP reports that Democrat Al Franken is starting the last day of 2008 with a 49-vote lead over Norm Coleman. That's revised from a 50-vote lead yesterday, after the ...
Coleman again taking recount to court —
CNN Political Ticker 1/1/2009
The recount of Minnesota's Senate race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, left, and Democrat Al Franken will stretch into next year.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) – Attorneys with Norm Coleman's Senate campaign on New Year's Eve are ...
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