minnesotaindependent.com - 11/20/2008
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Al Franken closed his vote count gap with incumbent Norm Coleman to 172 on Wednesday, the first day of Minnesota’s statewide U.S. Senate election recount. Both candidates lost votes as officials recounted by hand slightly more than 15 percent of 2.9 million ballots cast — but Coleman ...
startribune.com - 11/20/2008
startribune.com - 11/20/2008
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startribune.com —
The Great Minnesota Recount kicked off Wednesday with
masses of volunteers for Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman...
and Democratic challenger Al Franken moving into a fresh phase of the struggle: eyeballing the first of 2.9 million ballots, ready to ...
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Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/20/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
According to data just released by the Minnesota
Secretary of State , Al Franken has gained a...
net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount ...
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On First Day of Recount, Franken Gains Net of 43 Votes ...
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Franken's deficit dips below 200 on Day One of Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... closed his vote count gap with incumbent Norm Coleman to 172 on Wednesday, the first day of Minnesota’s statewide U.S. Senate election recount. Both candidates lost votes as officials recounted by hand slightly more than 15 percent of 2.9 million ballots cast — but Coleman lost 70 and Franken only 27. The two campaigns challenged nearly equal numbers of ballots ... The Minnesota Secretary of State’s office is posting daily updates of the recount’s running totals ... Read more: http://minnesotaindependent.com/18054/frankens-deficit-... ...
Counting Minnesota & Watching the Watchers
The BRAD BLOG —
... We've predicted since Election Day that Al Franken's chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota are excellent. News tonight, out of the state where a manual count of the paper ballots began today, may already be bearing out that prediction, though its far too early to know for sure. Franken, so far, has gained about 30 votes on the incument Sen. Norm Coleman on the first day of counting, bring the gap between the two to just 172 votes. ...
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Coleman wins, Franken loses; recount begins tomorrow
powerlineblog.com 11/18/2008 — Norm Coleman will be certified the winner of the contest for Minnesota's Senate seat by the state Canvassing Board today. Yesterday the Franken campaign asked the board not to certify the result until certain rejected absentee ballots are included in ...
Al Franken: The Vote Count is Meaningless
redstate.com 11/20/2008 —
Al Franken's team seems awfully dismissive of the vote that
appears to have resulted in the re-election of Norm Coleman to the
U.S. Senate. From Roll
Call (subscription only):
The Coleman campaign maintains the Senator won the election by
215 ...
Campaigns Dispute Minnesota Tally Before Key Board Decision —
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The campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Al Franken (D) wrangled over how large a margin separates the two candidates in Minnesota’s contested recount a day before the state’s Board of Canvassers decides whether or not to count as many as 12,000 previously disqualified ballots.
Democrat ...
Does the size of a typo matter? #mnrecount —
SCSUScholars
John Lott has commented on the StarTribune article that I discussed earlier this week . The fact that correcting typos increased Franken’s count by 459 votes (not counting Coleman’s lost votes) and Obama’s by 106 doesn’t prove fraud. Indeed, the Star Tribune might still be right in its claims ...
Odds And Ends, It's All Over But The Counting —
Hotline On Call Part Deux
-- A MN board has approved a statewide manual recount of the deadlocked Senate contest between Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken , officially triggering the count set to begin tomorrow.
-- Sen. John Cornyn replaced Sen. John Ensign today as chairman of the National Republican ...
SENATE RACE UPDATES —
The Page by Mark Halperin
Minnesota: TIME looks at the recount fight between Coleman and Franken.
Alaska: The close count is not expected to be resolved until later this week, though GOP senators may consider expelling Stevens from the party's Senate caucus before then.
Georgia: The senate runoff resulted ...
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