hotair.com - 11/6/2008
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With a recount mandated by the razor-thin margin in the Senate race in Minnesota between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, and its national implications, understanding the process is critical. Fortunately, Minnesota has prepared itself well in two ways for this task. First, we use optical-scan ...
startribune.com - 11/5/2008
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startribune.com —
One of the most bitter U.S. Senate races
in Minnesota history continued to grind on early this...
morning, with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL challenger Al Franken locked in a race that remained too close to call. With 98 percent of the returns ...
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Coleman vs. Franken: Recount looms
powerlineblog.com - 11/7/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
When the polls closed Tuesday evening, Minnesota's Secretary
of State's office showed that Norm Coleman had a...
725-vote win in his closely contested race against Al Franken. By the next morning, however, Coleman's victory was already shrinking. As ...
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What's Happening In Minnesota?
spectator.org - 11/7/2008
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spectator.org —
As Democrats nationwide try to make the climb
to a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate by...
pursuing recounts, an outspoken ACORN ally presides over the tallying of votes in the still-unresolved Minnesota Senate race. The fact that Mark ...
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SOS in Minnesota
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Senate Races Update: And Then There Were Three
Weekly Standard Blog —
... gifts from a businessman on his personal financial disclosures filed with the Senate. ... If he is re-elected and later resigns, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin must call for a special election. State law is unclear on whether she can appoint someone to fill the seat temporarily."
In Minnesota, Norm Coleman is leading Al Franken by 477 votes, but a recount of more than 2.5 million ballots cast is about to get under way. Ed Morrissey is fairly confident that this recount will go smoothly.
In Georgia, Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democratic ...
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miamiherald.com 12/24/2008 — At a recent hearing over the Senate vote recount in his state, Justice Paul Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court apparently took umbrage when an attorney suggested that the prolonged dispute was turning into a debacle along the lines of the Florida ...
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hotair.com 11/10/2008 — Earlier, I wrote that Minnesota has a good, solid voting system based on the optical-scan ballot. The system allows precincts to remove human intervention in the count, electronically transmitting the totals from each precinct to the Secretary of ...
Recount update: No official recount result until at least next week
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 12/19/2008 — Recount begins in tightly-contested Minnesota Senate race.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) - Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said after a long day of reviewing more challenged ballots Wednesday that a certification of recount results in the ...
Before Recount, GOP Smearing Minnesota Sec Of State
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/11/2008 — The recount in the Minnesota Senate race hasn't even begun yet, but already the GOP is working to delegitimize it in advance, by smearing the man who will run it as a partisan Democrat.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been ...
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