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Lawyer Alert: Minnesota Senate Race Recount Set To Get Underway
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/19/2008
Lawyer Alert: Minnesota Senate Race Recount Set To Get Underway
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Get ready -- the recount in the knock-down-drag-out Minnesota race is set to start tomorrow, following this afternoon's certification of GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's lead of only 215 votes over Al Franken. The hand count could cause quite a few ballots that the optical-scan machines originally ...
ww2.startribune.com - 11/19/2008
2008 Senate Recount
— ww2.startribune.com — Home | Politically Connected | National Politics | U.S. Senate U.S. Senate recount results by county County... % of precincts recounted % of votes recounted Coleman Franken Net gain from recount Ballot challenges Votes Chg Votes Chg By Coleman By Franken ... (more) 2008 Senate Recount

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startribune.com - 11/20/2008
Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks
— 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 ... (more) Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks

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powerlineblog.com - 11/18/2008
Coleman wins, Franken loses; recount begins tomorrow
— powerlineblog.com — 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 ... (more) Coleman wins, Franken loses; recount begins tomorrow

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The Sideshow:  Let the sun shine

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Let the sun shine
The Sideshow — I'm feeling a bit better, but after two days of being mostly unconscious, I have a lot of catching up to do on more things than blogging, so I'm not sure how fast we'll be up to date (as if that ever happens). Begich finally officially beats Stevens in Alaska, while "Coleman Enters Recount With Official 215-Vote Lead" over Franken in Minnesota. (Also: 18 November in 100 seconds, or more sucker punches.) Hilzoy: "Even now, the Bush gang is pushing an 11th-hour plan to "grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and ...

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the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Al Franken's attempt to have rejected absentee ballots counted prior to certification was rejected by the state attorney general's office -- it is a matter for the courts, should Franken wish to challenge, not an ...
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politicalwire.com 11/6/2008 — The Associated Press "is uncalling the Minnesota Senate race." Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)  finished ahead of Al Franken (D) "early Wednesday in the final vote count, but his 571-vote margin falls within the state's mandatory recount law. That law ...
Minnesota Recount: Anything you can do, I can do better
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powerlineblog.com 11/22/2008 — The Senate recount continues in Minnesota; well over half of all ballots will have been recounted by the end of the day. Challenges are increasing from both campaigns and tempers seem to be fraying, with the campaigns holding dueling press ...
In Minnesota Recount, Both Candidates are Losers
fivethirtyeight.com 11/20/2008 — And I mean literally. The Minnesota recount has started, with the results being updated in semi-real time on the Star Tribune's webpage . Thus far, with about 4 percent of the ballots recounted, Coleman has lost 30 votes and Franken has lost 39. I'm ...
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powerlineblog.com 11/20/2008 — The recount in Minnesota's Coleman-Franken Senate race is underway; today, Franken gained a net 28 votes in Democratic St. Louis County. The gain was attributed to older voting machines that failed to read faint pencil marks. A Republican spokesman ...
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Recount begins in Minnesota for U.S. Senate seat — L.A. Times - Politics 11/19/2008
The still-undecided contest currently has incumbent Republican Norm Coleman leading Democrat Al Franken by 215 votes. > Standing before an impatient crowd ...
Minnesota Starts Recount for US Senate Seat — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 11/19/2008
City and county workers across Minnesota began a laborious recount Wednesday of more than 2.9 million ballots in the tight U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken
Judge Grants Franken Ballot Access Request — FOXNews.com 11/19/2008
Franken wants the rosters of disqualified absentee voters in all 87 counties to determine if they were properly rejected in the counting of ballots for his close race with incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
With Minnesota recount underway, Al Franken visits Capitol Hill — CNN Political Ticker 11/19/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – One day after the state of Minnesota began re-counting the nearly three million ballots cast in the state’s tightly-contested Senate race, the two candidates in the race — Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent ...
Minnesota recount could get ugly — CNN Political Ticker 11/19/2008
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — The Senate campaign in Minnesota between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken was considered to be quite nasty, with attack ads and angry statements by both sides. Now, it seems ...