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Power Line: Supreme Court Rejects Coleman Appeal
Hot Air » Top Picks: Coleman’s lead over Franken now down to … two votes
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: Coleman's Lead Now Single Digits
Franken Senate Victory Projected
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... As it stands now, it seems likely that Franken will end this process with a lead wider than even his campaign expected. Earlier projections, from the Associated Press, Star Tribune and Franken himself, suggested that Coleman would lose the race by roughly 20 votes or less. And this tally doesn't even take into consideration the legal and political battle being waged over wrongfully rejected absentee ballots, which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled, on Thursday, should be counted. ...
Franken Senate Victory Projected
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As it stands now, it seems likely that Franken will end this process with a lead wider than even his campaign expected. Earlier projections, from the Associated Press, Star Tribune and Franken himself, suggested that Coleman would lose the race by roughly 20 votes or less. And this tally doesn't even take into consideration the legal and political battle being waged over wrongfully rejected absentee ballots, which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled, on Thursday, should be counted. ...
Supreme Court Rejects Coleman Appeal
Power Line —
... The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an order today denying the Coleman campaign's request that the state's Canvassing Board be blocked from considering "improperly rejected absentee ballots," but, perhaps more important, the Court also directed the two campaigns, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie ("the Man from ACORN") and the state's canvassing boards to agree on uniform standards to be applied by the counties. One justice, Alan Page, dissented on the ground that the counties should be able to make their own judgments about what ballots were properly cast and that there is no ...
Coleman’s lead over Franken now down to … two votes
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... dwindle to just two votes Thursday. Meanwhile, a key court ruling put hundreds of improperly rejected ballots in play and promised the recount would drag into the new year… Coleman’s lead eroded all day Thursday as the Canvassing Board considered a pile of challenges brought entirely by the Coleman campaign. The pile included a big chunk of withdrawn challenges, many of which went quickly to Franken’s column. The “key court ruling” is the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to count 1,600 absentee ballots that had been rejected. Who knows? By the time this is done, Stuart ...
Coleman's Lead Now Single Digits
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... Meanwhile, in a ruling crucial to the disputed election, the
Minnesota Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Coleman to block the state Canvassing Board from counting improperly
rejected absentee ballots. ...
AP: Franken Up By 2 Votes; Strib: Will Win by 89
The BRAD BLOG —
... How the Strib comes to that final projection is unknown, as the MN Supreme Court ruled today that some 1600 incorrectly rejected absentee ballots --- never counted --- should now be counted. Those ballots are believed to likely favor Franken if they ever actually get counted. The Coleman camp had tried to keep that from happening by taking the the matter to the Supremes in a ...
Al Franken closes the gap on Coleman
Crooks and Liars —
Minnesota is wild.
In a ruling crucial to the disputed U.S. Senate election, the Minnesota Supreme Court Thursday rejected an attempt by incumbent Norm Coleman to block the state Canvassing Board from counting improperly rejected absentee ballots.
However, the court ruled that the campaigns of Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, along with Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and vote canvassing boards establish a uniform standard for identifying and counting such absentee ballots. The court said they should then be added to the tally ...
Coleman Stalls Minnesota Recount Over Absentee Ballots
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled recently that the discarded ballots should be counted, but only if both campaigns agreed the rejection was wrong. ...
Coleman Stalls Minnesota Recount Over Absentee Ballots
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled recently that the discarded ballots should be counted, but only if both campaigns agreed the rejection was wrong. ...
