foxnews.com - 12/22/2008
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Minnesota's Canvassing Board, in trying to divine the intentions of voters in the state's U.S. Senate race, will leave long lasting questions about the legitimacy of any win
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/24/2008
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Norm Coleman just got a Christmas present from
the Minnesota Supreme Court: A giant lump of coal....
In a unanimous decision handed down just now, the state Supremes denied Coleman any relief in a lawsuit he was waging to deal with allegations of ...
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Minnesota Supremes Shoot Down Crucial Coleman Lawsuit, ...
startribune.com - 12/22/2008
politico.com - 12/23/2008
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politico.com —
Blog: For the first time since the Minnesota
Senate recount began, Sen. Norm Coleman briefly talked to...
a Minneapolis TV station about the recount
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Coleman speaks!
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Minnesota Recount: Taking longer than expected
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... return of the challenges will wipe out that 251-vote lead and return Coleman to the lead. Bottom line: we won’t know much until at least tomorrow, and depending on the Supreme Court decision, possibly into the new year. This recount was automatic because of the close nature of the results, and both campaigns have used their challenges in similar ways. The canvassing board, apart from the hyperpartisan Mark Ritchie, is comprised of respected, independent jurists. John Lott, though, sees problems with their results: The Canvassing Board faces a difficult task in divining ...
Fox News Finds Typo, Blames Liberal Conspiracy
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
Who was this ballot cast for? Norm Coleman, right? No, this is not a trick question. Unless your name is John Lott, Jr., Ph.D. and you just published an analysis at FoxNews.com. The ballot in question, from Minnesota's 4th Ward, 8th Precinct, was originally cast and counted for Norm Coleman. It was challenged by the Franken campaign, which claimed that it was a duplicate ballot, and designated as the 3rd challenge from that precinct. The challenge was subsequently withdrawn, as the Franken campaign withdraw essentially all of his ...
Franken Takes Lead in MN Senate Race
Gateway Pundit —
When Republican Norm Coleman won the election by 725 votes on election day you knew this senate seat was lost. Sure enough- It looks like Al Franken may sneak out a win in Minnesota. How sad. The Minnesota Canvassing Board claimed this vote is clearly for Franken? The way it looks today, if the projection proves correct, Franken will beat incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman by 78 votes. FOX News reported: The Canvassing Board overseeing the vote recount for Minnesota’s ...
Strange decisions made by the Minnesota Canvassing Board
Betsy's Page —
... to find out who will be the next senator from Minnesota, people are starting to review some of the decisions made by the Canvassing Board in how they allocated votes to either Coleman or Franken. Apparently, they indulged themselves in a bit of mind-reading in trying to determine voter intent. And, as John Lott details , they sometimes applied those rules inconsistently and the result has been for Franken to go into the lead. For example, Coleman ovals that were darkened in and then an X was put over the oval were determined to be an indication that the voter had first voted ...
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Doug Ross @ Journal —
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To The Christie Campaign: Remember Norm Coleman And Defend Your Victory
RedState —
... courtesy of the Soros funded SOS (Secretaries of State) Project; the aim of which to get individuals who have sworn to actively slant the process, lie, cheat and steal to ensure that Democrats win elections whether or not they actually get the higher number of votes (like Minnesota SOS Mark Ritchie, a direct beneficiary) elected to state Secretary of State positions (in charge of conducting elections) around the country.
Handsomely paid off in Minnesota, didn’t it?
John Lott sounded the alarm as the theft was happening in a definitive piece for ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 11/11/2008 — A Minneapolis-based Daily Kos diarist named 'bitwise' has done some further sleuthing on the impending Minnesota senate recount , which we had discussed at length this morning . Here's what he's found: The freshest data, pulled from the state website ...
Hold Your Horses, Minnesota
fivethirtyeight.com 12/18/2008 — The State of Minnesota's Canvassing Board has finished adjudicating challenges brought to the Board by Al Franken. They will begin evaluating challenges brought by Norm Coleman's campaign tomorrow. The Star Tribune has logged 391 challenges made by ...
Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To Finish Line
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/18/2008 — 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 ...
Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election
powerlineblog.com 1/7/2009 — The media coverage of the events related to Minnesota's Senate election and subsequent recount has been so poor that it is difficult to determine what happened. The erosion of Senator Coleman's approximately 700 vote lead over Al Franken on November ...
In Minnesota, End of the Beginning Starts Today
fivethirtyeight.com 1/3/2009 — UPDATE (9:48 AM): The state will now begin counting the ballots; see The Uptake for live video coverage. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on Coleman's petition, nor was the recount team in St. Paul willing to delay the counting until it heard from ...
Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It
fivethirtyeight.com 12/20/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board this afternoon completed the bulk of its review of challenged ballots. The Canvassing Board ruled upon 1,325 challenges, according to numbers prepared by the Star Tribune , including 852 challenges brought by the Coleman ...
Franken Senate Victory Projected
huffingtonpost.com 12/19/2008 — Democratic challenger Al Franken finds himself on the cusp of winning a seat in the United States Senate after Minnesota's canvassing board awarded him a host of challenged votes during deliberations on Thursday.
As of 8PM ET, the Minneapolis Star ...
Why we keep questioning the recount
scsuscholars.com 1/22/2009 — Suppose you are an election official in a precinct. You are collecting ballots with a machine that measures people as they come through the door. At one point your machine breaks down. You replace the machine with a backup, but you fail to turn that ...
TheHill.com
thehill.com 12/3/2008 — Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken’s campaign said Wednesday that the comedian has taken the lead in his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R). Franken’s lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign’s ...
Franken holds lead, but it's not over —
msnbc.com: Politics 12/23/2008
With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final count, however, showed no sign of being settled soon.
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