tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/29/2009
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Here's another funny moment earlier today from the slow-motion comedy show that is the Minnesota Senate trial.
The Coleman team is continuing to call as witnesses some aggrieved voters to complain that their ballot was wrongly rejected. This didn't go too well last time , and the newest pair ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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We have seen the best thing that Norm
Coleman's legal team has done so far in this...
election trial -- and it ain't pretty. This afternoon the Coleman team was bringing in rejected absentee voters to show that their ballots were improperly tossed. ...
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Coleman's Supposedly Friendly Witnesses Backfire
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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The Coleman team appears to be laying out
a continued strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy...
of the Minnesota election result by pointing to a fundamental underlying idea of this dispute: The margin of error is simply too big in a race this ...
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Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
mnpublius.com - 1/28/2009
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mnpublius.com —
Today, Team Coleman’s blogger at MDE, Ryan Flynn,
posted a tidbit today: “THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN WEBSITE” ST...
PAUL – Information recently added to the Coleman for Senate website, whereby people can find out which Minnesota ...
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Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash
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Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
Talking Points Memo —
... Norm Coleman's legal team has denied they were cherry-picking rejected absentee voters for Coleman supporters -- but one of those Coleman voters just admitted on the witness stand that he himself was cherry-picked by the Coleman team. ...
MN-Sen: Cherry Picking For Votes
Daily Kos —
Did Norm Coleman really think that this little detail wouldn't come up? The Coleman team is continuing to call as witnesses some aggrieved voters to complain that their ballot was wrongly rejected ... One of them was college student Peter DeMuth... Upon cross-examination by Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton, DeMuth said he was contacted by the Republican Party and told about the problem. "They asked me if I knew my absentee ballot had been rejected. I said no," said DeMuth. "They asked me if I was a supporter of Norm Coleman, and I said yes, and ...
'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... Coleman's new-found support for Internet voting came following the testimony of his witness, Peter DeMuth, a college student who goes to school in Fargo, ND, who "drove several hours to St. Paul" on Thursday "just so that he could get his vote counted," according to Kleefeld's description of the testimony. ...
Senate Guru: NH-Sen & MN-Sen: Bipartisanship
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and pay lip-service. Why do I say this, and what does this have to do with MN-Sen (though you've probably guessed by now)?
Minnesota only has one seated U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar. Norm Coleman's term expired last month, and Senator-elect Al Franken's seating is held up by Coleman's frivolous, foot-dragging, evidence-free lawsuit, which has featured apparently-doctored evidence by Coleman as well as notoriously dud witnesses and lies regarding cherry-picked voters.
There is state law in Minnesota that the Governor and Secretary of ...
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Downballot: Day 2 of recount trial —
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"On Day 2 of the trial over Coleman's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Senate recount, lawyers for him and for Democrat Al Franken questioned a half-dozen voters whose absentee ballots were rejected, a group that was generally sympathetic and indignant ...
Voters testify on day two of MN Senate trial —
CNN Political Ticker 1/28/2009
Minnesota voters who say their absentee ballots were rejected for no good reason took the witness stand Tuesday in the second day of the trial requested by former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — Minnesota voters who ...
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