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powerlineblog.com - 11/27/2008
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IX
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The Coleman campaign has just issued the following press release that confirms the nightmare scenarios sketched out by John Fund in his Wall Street Journal column today: ST. PAUL - Hours after the Franken campaign failed to convince the Minnesota State Canvassing Board to intervene on its ...

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No Runny Eggs:  Senate Dems prepared to use one part of the Constitution to invalidate another

briefingroom.thehill.com - 12/1/2008
Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount
— briefingroom.thehill.com — Democrat Al Franken's campaign said Monday that as many as 1,000 absentee ballots were improperly disqualified in Minnesota's Senate race, and that it may appeal to courts or the U.S. Senate to order those ballots counted. "Wherever the numbers stand ... (more) Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount

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thehill.com - 12/1/2008
Franken may seek Senate’s help to win race
— thehill.com — Al Franken’s (D) campaign may ask the Democratic-led Senate to intervene on his behalf to allow some disqualified absentee ballots to be counted in his quest to unseat Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Franken attorney Marc Elias made the case to reporters ... (more) Franken may seek Senate’s help to win race

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powerlineblog.com - 11/26/2008
Minnesota Senate recount update, update VIII
— powerlineblog.com — The Franken campaign and its allies such as Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman are now focusing on rejected absentee ballots. In today's Star Tribune Kevin Duchschere shows that Ritchie is now ... (more) Minnesota Senate recount update, update VIII

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Senate Dems prepared to use one part of the Constitution to invalidate another
No Runny Eggs — ... Scott at Power Line reports that the Al Franken campaign, with the blessing of Senate Democratic (and Majority) leader Harry Reid, is contemplating taking their case to count absentee ballots rejected on Election Day thwart a legal election victory by Norm Coleman to the Senate. Their “justification” is that Article I Section 5 of the Constitution gives the power to judge the elections and returns of Senate candidates exclusively to the Senate: ...

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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 III
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 ...
State Pegs Coleman Lead at 172 Votes; Challenges Increase for Fourth Straight Day
fivethirtyeight.com 11/24/2008 — The nightly, 8 PM update from the Minnesota Secretary of State now shows Norm Coleman with a nominal lead of 172 votes over Al Franken. According to the state's accounting, Franken has gained 43 votes on Coleman since the recount process began. ...
Lizard People Could Be Decisive in Minnesota
swampland.blogs.time.com 11/25/2008 — The great Senate race recount of 2008 continues apace in Minnesota, with former funny guy Al Franken, the Democrat, enjoying a net gain of 46 votes over former furinture vendor Norm Coleman, the Republican, not counting ballot challenges. That ...
Franken Camp Claims Race Still Narrowing, Accuses Coleman Of Recount Shenanigans
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/26/2008 — Is Al Franken actually gaining on Norm Coleman from the recount? That's what the Franken campaign just argued in a reporters' briefing -- and they accuse the Coleman campaign of gaming the system to cover it up. The public numbers from the Star ...
Campaigns Dispute Minnesota Tally Before Key Board Decision
briefingroom.thehill.com 11/26/2008 — The campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Al Franken (D) wrangled over how large a margin separates the two candidates in Minnesota’s contested recount a day before the state’s Board of Canvassers decides whether or not to count as many as ...
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 »
Franken Camp: Margin Now 84 Votes, Ballots Still Missing
huffingtonpost.com 11/26/2008 — The Franken campaign, citing internal numbers, say the recount election deficit that they face against Sen. Norm Coleman is now down to a mere 84 votes. The results, announced by Franken's chief counsel, Marc Elias, present a mixed bag of sorts ...
Franken Coleman Recount
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 11/26/2008 — The Coleman campaign continued its addition-by-subtraction campaign, challenging considerably more ballots than Franken's people did today in order to create an artificial "lead" of 231 (per the StarTribune ). Franken's campaign claims ...
Coleman Lawyers Up
powerlineblog.com 11/28/2008 — With the Thanksgiving holiday, there hasn't been much news in the Senate recount contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 282-vote lead, with 88 percent of ballots recounted. It seems clear at ...
Minnesota Recount: Franken’s Sore Loser Strategy
hotair.com 11/29/2008 — The setback at the Canvassing Board has forced Al Franken to face the fact that he didn’t get enough valid votes to beat Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s Senate Race. With the rejection of his bid to get the panel to add in thousands of ...
Franken-Coleman Recount: Searching for Spines
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 12/1/2008 — Last Friday morning, I reported that the state canvassing board had avoided making a ruling that would commit them to reviewing the thousands of rejected absentee ballots in the November 4 election . This action is cowardly in the extreme, being ...
Franken Takes The Lead In MN?
nicedeb.wordpress.com 12/2/2008 — Yes, according to the MN Secretary of State Website: 5% (3872 of 4130) Last update was: 12/1/2008 8:00:01 PM Statewide Recount Results for US Senate Totals Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Norm Coleman 1103291 Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Al ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 3 — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, it goes on... and on... and on... With 82 percent of ballots recounted, Norm Coleman has a lead of 231 votes over Al Franken. (Check out the Star Tribune 's recount news page here . County-by-county results are here .) And it's a long way from being ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 5 — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings The more or less official tally has Coleman up by 316 (an increase of 101 since the start of the recount), but Franken's lead lawyer announced Wednesday afternoon that his candidate is actually in the lead by 22. How so? TPM's Eric Kleefeld explains : The Franken ...
Franken to Take Senate Fight to … the Senate — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Still locked in a bitter recount battle for the right to represent Minnesota in the upper house, Al Franken’s lawyer says he might take the matter directly to the Senate, which the Constitution allows to be the “Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own ...
Franken-Coleman Recount, 12/1/08: Chaos Chaos Chaos! (Not.) — Firedoglake
As we watch the recount process unfold in Minnesota, bear this in mind: The persons screaming the loudest about "chaos" (which is apparently what would happen if all the votes were honestly counted, to judge from their squawking), and how icky everything about the recount supposedly ...
Franken Camp Claims He's Gaining On Coleman, But Big Challenges Remain — TPM Election Central
Does Al Franken have a chance of catching Norm Coleman in the recount? The Franken campaign is now claiming that he continues to close the gap with the GOP Senator -- down to 73 votes with 88.6% of ballots counted, using the campaign's methodology -- but the latest numbers suggest Franken's ...
Franken Camp: We're Down 73 Votes, Will Pursue Legal Actions If Needed — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The Minnesota Senate recount is getting incredibly tight. According to officials from the Al Franken campaign, the margin separating the Democratic challenger and Sen. Norm Coleman is now down to 73 votes out of approximately 2.9 million cast. Several weeks into the recount, 88.6% of the ...
Franken Camp: We're Down 73 Votes, May Pursue Legal Action — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The Minnesota Senate recount is getting incredibly tight. According to officials from the Al Franken campaign, the margin separating the Democratic challenger and Sen. Norm Coleman is now down to 73 votes out of approximately 2.9 million cast. Several weeks into the recount, 88.6% of the ...
Things Aren’t Looking Food For Franken In The Senate Recount — Say Anything
The margins are still slim, but at least one election official says Coleman lead is big enough that Franken won’t be overcoming it . While a tiny margin separates the candidates in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it is wide enough that Democrat Al Franken faces a daunting task in ...
US Senate Decides Minnesota Election? Franken vs. Coleman — Politics Daily
UPI.com The Minnesota U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken is undergoing a recount, with the candidates separated by less than 300 votes out of 2.9 million cast. But a controversial decision by the state's Elections Canvassing Board ...
Franken-Coleman Recount: It’s The Timelines, Stupid! — Firedoglake
I've decided to channel Emptywheel and start constructing a timeline of sorts for the Franken-Coleman recount. Take a look at this handy chart compiled by Twin Cities blogger Jeff Rosenberg. It shows the ratio of challenges to ballots counted. Notice that for most of the first three days of ...
Sore Loser: Franken Looking To Take Recount To Court — Say Anything
Coleman won the original election, has maintained a lead throughout the recount process, but now with that lead at 300 votes and some 12,000 absentee ballots having been disqualified it looks like Al Franken is going to ask judges to decide the election instead of the voters. ST. PAUL, ...
The Good & Bad News On The Coleman/Franken Recount — Flopping Aces
I’m traveling today so not much blogging from me but thought I would check in to give some good news : …with nearly 80 percent of the ballots recounted and Norm Coleman clinging to a roughly 200-vote lead over Al Franken, a resolution finally looks to be on the horizon And the ...
Minnesota State Board Rejects Franken Request — The Caucus
Yet another twist in the extraordinarily close recount in the Franken-Coleman Senate bout.
Franken's Attention Turning to Absentee Ballots — RedState: Conservative News and Community
He Knows the Recount Is Lost Without Them Promoted from the diaries by Erick. I've been tracking the Coleman-Franken recount for a week now. My latest post focuses on Franken turning his attention to the rejected absentee ballots. He's doing that because Sen. Coleman's lead has grown ...
Franken Camp Claims Race Still Narrowing, Accuses Coleman Of Recount Shenanigans — The Hollywood Liberal
Franken Camp Claims Race Still Narrowing, Accuses Coleman Of Recount Shenanigans Is Al Franken actually gaining on Norm Coleman from the recount? That's what the Franken campaign just argued in a reporters' briefing -- and they accuse the Coleman campaign of gaming the system to cover it ...
Al Franken Losing Ground in Minnesota Senate Recount — Politics Daily
Comedian turned liberal gadfly radio host turned Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken is locked in a tight recount battle with incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman. But as the recount is nearing its completion something is happening in Minnesota's biggest Democratic stronghold, ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update VII — Power Line
A correspondent who has been working non-stop in the trenches since the Senate recount began describes Al Franken's most recent strategy: document every "error" or "problem" that occurs in the course of the recount, to prepare to attack the process if Franken loses: Being involved daily ...
Minnesota Recount Update, Not Optimistic — Open Left - Front Page
Norm Coleman now leads Al Franken by 231 votes according to the Star Tribune which is 16 more than he started with prior to the recounting. Of course the "real" margin has been almost entirely obscured by the more than 3,600 challenges lodged by the two campaigns. Nevertheless, I am not ...
Mini-Sota Update, Day 6 — FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
The rates of challenged ballots keep on rising, with a gap opening up between the Coleman and the Franken campaigns: The reward for his hard work? Coleman now leads by 238 votes -- a larger margin than when he started the recount -- according to the Minnesota Secretary of State . As before, ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update VI — Power Line
It seems that the pace of the Minnesota Senate recount is slowing, with 82 percent of the ballots reportedly now recounted. It seems pretty clear that the votes the Franken campaign had hoped to uncover aren't there, so far. By the Minneapolis Star Tribune's count, Norm Coleman's lead has ...
Franken staying out of court -- for now — First Read
From NBC's Carrie Dann Senate candidate Al Franken will not appeal a decision by the Minnesota State Canvassing Board, which today rejected the Democrat's request that rejected  absentee ballots be included in the race's hotly contested ...
Courts Should Handle Minnesota Absentee Vote Disputes, Board Says (CQPolitics.com) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - The plot continues to thicken in the undecided Minnesota Senate contest, now entering the second week of a legally mandated recount with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman maintaining a razor-thin lead over Democratic challenger Al ...
Minn. board to rule on voided absentee ballots — msnbc.com: Politics
The Coleman campaign argues the state Canvassing Board has no authority and including the rejected absentee ballots undermines the legitimacy of the overall process.
Crucial Hearing Today in Minnesota Recount — CNN Political Ticker
The recount in Minnesota could stretch into December. (CNN) – A crucial hearing today in Minnesota could have a major impact on that state's recount of its Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken. ...
Tension rises as Minn. recount enters 2nd week — msnbc.com: Politics
With just a fifth of the state's precincts left to go in Minnesota's Senate recount, supporters of Al Franken and Norm Coleman remain in the hunt for ballots that could tip the balance to their candidate.