foxnews.com - 11/20/2008
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The Minnesota State Canvassing Board will ultimately decide the winner of the hotly contested Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.
startribune.com - 11/24/2008
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startribune.com —
Blog: The Big Question Here’s one way to
send a protest with your ballot This Anoka County...
voter was clearly ready for the end of campaign season. This ballot has an almost poetic quality. In case you have trouble reading it, the poem goes like this, ...
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Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
startribune.com - 11/20/2008
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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 ...
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Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/26/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Minnesota's Canvassing Board today unanimously rejected a request
by the Al Franken campaign to mandate that absentee...
ballots initially rejected as invalid be reconsidered, essentially declaring that it does not have jurisdiction to do so. However, ...
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Minnesota Canvassing Board Punts on Rejected Absentee ...
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Minnesota: Perverse Incentives to Challenge Ballots?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... The incentives may be particularly powerful for the Coleman campaign, because Minnesota has a Democratic Secretary of State (although the five-person canvassing board he appointed appears to be divided roughly evenly across the political spectrum). If Coleman leads at the end of both the initial count (as he did) and the first phase of the recount process, but falls behind Franken after the canvassing board completes his review of the challenged ballots, he will probably attempt to complain later that Democratically-appointed canvassing board had "overturned the will of the ...
Did the Wall Street Jorunal Fire their Fact-Checkers?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... "Machinations": there's a ten-dollar word. Ritchie may be a Democrat, but he was also democratically elected -- lower case 'D' -- by the people of Minnesota. And as for the Canvassing Board, it arguably leans to the right, consisting of two members appointed by Tim Pawlenty, one appointed by Jesse Ventura, one elected member, and Ritchie. ...
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Minnesota Senate Race Goes to Recount
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 ...
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In Minnesota, Another Bid for a Recount
nytimes.com 1/21/2009 — Norm Coleman, who lost the Senate race by 225 votes when a board certified the results of a recount, now wants a panel of judges to consider whether to count 12,000 more. >
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 ...
Minnesota Canvassing Board certifies Franken as winner.
thinkprogress.org 1/5/2009 — The Minnesota State Canvassing board has certified results showing that Al Franken has won the Minnesota Senate recount, beating Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) by 225 votes. But the race is still “in limbo,” as the Board’s declaration ...
Minnesota Recount: Good news/bad news
hotair.com 11/26/2008 — We’ll start with the good news in the Minnesota Recount, at least from Norm Coleman’s perspective. The expected gain for Al Franken in the heavily DFL counties of Hennepin (Minneapolis) and Ramsey (St. [...] Read the rest »
Minnesota recount goes on . . . and on . . .
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 ...
136 votes...
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Yahoo! News: Politics News
Politico - ... now separate Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Democrat Al Franken, with 46 percent of the 2.9 million ballots recounted in the too-close-to-call Minnesota Senate race. Franken so far has gained a net of 79 votes on Coleman.
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