hotair.com - 2/4/2009
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Norm Coleman joined the conference call himself today, calling yesterday’s decision by the election contest panel “a great day” for Minnesota voters. Coleman reminded people that he led on Election Night, before the recount, and he thinks that the decision will restore the ...
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?
fivethirtyeight.com - 2/4/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that approximately
4,800 absentee ballots considered by the Coleman campaign to
have been potentially wrongly rejected should be reviewed by the state. The Franken campaign, meanwhile, has its own list of ...
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Absentee Ballots Unlikely to Save Coleman
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/5/2009
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The Coleman legal team is continuing to review
the rejected absentee ballots one by one, spending this
afternoon questioning Pine County Auditor Cathy Clemmer. One particular ballot came from a man whose ballot was tossed because he was not a ...
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Coleman Lawyer: Count The Prisoner's Vote
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Sen. Coleman Conference Call
California Conservative —
... wouldn’t get into hypothetical questions but did say that certified election winners traditionally get seated.
They ended the call before I got to ask my question. I’d planned on asking whether the election contest would’ve been able to proceed if Sen. Cornyn hadn’t threatened to filibuster Sen. Reid’s attempt to ‘temporarily’ seat Mr. Franken.
UPDATE: Ed’s got a good post up about the call here.
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Senator Coleman Conference Call
SCSUScholars —
This morning I participated in a conference call with Senator Norm Coleman and attorney, Ben Ginsburg. The call has been covered here and here but I would also like to make a few observations. The current Al Franken lead may very well be artificial. Why? It includes the double counted ballots. The Franken team has ignored the canvassing board statements that there were inconsistent standards applied to absentee ballots and because of this, the election case was and is a legitimately contested case. The ballots covered by the canvassing board were predominantly from ...
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