dailykos.com - 11/13/2008
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dailykos.com —
In Alaska we have 90,000 ballots waiting to
be counted (PDF): Absentee : 60,950 Early : 9,507...
Question : 20,178 Total: 90,635 Today, the state will count 42,991 of the absentee ballots and 9.333 of the early votes. They'll be counting these ...
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Alaska and Minnesota updates
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the...
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/11/2008
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
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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Before Recount, GOP Smearing Minnesota Sec Of State
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Begich Now Up By 814 Votes
Ace of Spades HQ —
... No Palin Senatorship, most likely. Meanwhile, Al Franken wants to add "undervotes" to his tally, better known as "votes deliberately not cast for Al Franken but to which he believes himself entitled. Posted by: Ace at ...
What's happening in Minnesota? part 8
Power Line —
... , is premised on a supposed Franken "undervote." Ed Morrissey takes pains to demonstrate the fraudulence of this line of attack for anyone unfamiliar with Minnesota's voting system. (Incidentally, Brian Bakst has no such excuse.) ...
Al Franken Hires Six Lawyers Per Voter
Politics Daily —
... sob stories, the campaign is continuing their effort to paint a picture of election day irregularities to gloss over the glaring irregularities in Franken's favor since the election. ...
Franken Making Dubious Ballot Challenges
Politics Daily —
... Al Franken, who wants to count for himself ballots which contain no selection in the Senate race, is conversely, or perhaps perversely, challenging votes which do contain ...
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Stealing Minnesota: The Franken Undervote Lie
redstate.com 11/14/2008 —
I spent six years as an elections lawyer. I handled
a lot of very wacked election canvasses
and recounts. One thing they all had in common: when new votes were
found, they generally went both ways -- a few for one candidate and
a few for the ...
Minnesota Recount Update
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 ...
Minnesota Senate recount, update X
powerlineblog.com 12/4/2008 — This morning Kathryn Lopez asked me to update NRO's Corner readers on the Minnesota Senate recount. This was my report.
Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the ...
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 ...
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 11/23/2008 — As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ...
Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
fivethirtyeight.com 11/10/2008 — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ...
What's happening in Minnesota? part 8
powerlineblog.com 11/14/2008 — Al Franken is waging a campaign to overturn the results of Minnesota's Senate election based on a series of deceitful allegations. On this score the fraudulent sob story involving the 84-year-old stroke victim whose ballot was supposedly rejected ...
Minnesota is the new Florida
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, not exactly. I mean, it's not like the outcome of the presidential election depends on the outcome of Minnesota's Senate election or anything, but, still, the extremely close race between Republican Norm Coleman ...
Schumer: 60 'possible but unlikely' —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn his mission to crush a GOP filibuster, DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer feels the chance of 60 Democratic senators this cycle is “possible, but unlikely.”
Briefing reporters this afternoon, the New York senator gave the ...
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