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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/19/2008
Minnesota Supremes Decide (Mostly) For Coleman On Absentee Ballot Lawsuit
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A divided Minnesota Supreme Court has now ruled on Norm Coleman's lawsuit to stop the counting of absentee ballots that are found to have been rejected through clerical errors: The court appears to have mostly ruled for Coleman, but with some very important strings attached. The court has ...
Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To Finish Line
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To Finish Line
— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — Don't look now, but it looks like Al Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race. A series... of developments in the last few days have given the very strong impression that Al is suddenly in a position to prevail -- and a resolution of the fight might ... (more) Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To ...

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startribune.com - 12/19/2008
Franken pushes his lead over Coleman past 150
— startribune.com — The state Canvassing Board's first rush of ballot rulings in the U.S. Senate race has unofficially put... challenger Al Franken in the lead by more than 150. (more) Franken pushes his lead over Coleman past 150

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Talking Points Memo — ... The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled earlier this evening on Sen. Norm Coleman's effort to block the counting of certain absentee ballots in the state's protracted Senate recount. Let me start by saying that the ...

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Coleman Seeks Court Order To Stop Vote Count
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/12/2008 — Here's the response from Norm Coleman's campaign to the big news today that the Minnesota state canvassing board sided with Al Franken on re-examining and counting wrongly-rejected absentee ballots: We're taking it to the state Supreme Court . The ...
Coleman Camp Gets Roughed Up By State Supremes
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/17/2008 — The Minnesota Supreme Court just finished hearing arguments on Norm Coleman's lawsuit to stop the counting of ballots that are found to have been rejected due to clerical errors, and here's the deal: It didn't look great for Coleman. Things ...
Minn. Supreme Court Sides With Coleman, Overturns Board
briefingroom.thehill.com 12/19/2008 — The Minnesota Supreme has sided with Sen. Norm Coleman (R) in Minnesota's contested Senate race, handing down a ruling that largely excludes hundreds if not thousands of ballots Democrat Al Franken had sought to include in the recount. The court in ...
No, Coleman didn't win at the MN Supreme Court
dailykos.com 12/19/2008 — The Hill : Minn. Supreme Court Sides With Coleman, Overturns Board The Minnesota Supreme has sided with Sen. Norm Coleman (R) in Minnesota's contested Senate race, handing down a ruling that largely excludes hundreds if not thousands of ballots ...
Minnesota Senate recount, update XI
powerlineblog.com 12/17/2008 — I understand that the Minnesota Supreme Court has accepted the Coleman campaign's petition for a hearing regarding the issues raised by the Board of Canvassers' "recommendation" that Minnesota's 87 counties certain previoulsy rejected absentee ...
Coleman v. Minnesota Canvassing Board
fivethirtyeight.com 12/18/2008 — This afternoon, Minnesota's Supreme Court will take up Norm Coleman's request (PDF) to stop the counting of so-called "fifth-pile" absentee ballots in Minnesota. These are ballots that initially were rejected by the counties, but that upon further ...
About My Minnesota Fears
corner.nationalreview.com 12/19/2008 — A friend and GOP politico close to the recount says: "Nobody knows what the numbers mean at this point. I believe Coleman will be ahead once all the challenged ballots are reviewed. The big issue remains the 'improperly rejected' absentee ballots.  ...
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 ...
Minnesota Supreme Court: Count rejected absentee ballots — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Startribune.com[/b] 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 ...
Coleman Leading Franken By Single Digit — Politics Daily
The Minnesota recount has turned in Franken's favor once again, as the challenged ballot review has brought the estimated Coleman lead to within two votes. Also this week, the State Supreme Court ruled against the Coleman campaign, allowing previously rejected absentee ballots to be reviewed ...
Coleman Asks Court To Stop Absentee Ballot Count — Daily Kos
Respects democracy like W : Coleman asks Court to stop counties from opening absentee ballots by Mike Mulcahy, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign has asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to issue an order preventing county canvassing ...
Minnesota Supreme Court Takes Coleman/Franken Ballot Issue — Politics Daily
AP : The court said Monday it will weigh whether to stop the sorting and counting of wrongly rejected absentee ballots until clear instructions are handed down. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman petitioned the court to step in after the state board overseeing the recount recommended those ballots ...
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 ...
Happy Hour Links — Weekly Standard Blog
Minnesota Supreme Court orders local election officials and the Franken and Coleman campaigns to agree upon a procedure for identifying and counting wrongly rejected absentee ballots. WikiLeaks posts information on bomb-stopping frequency jammers that have reduced killings in Iraq. Bush ...
MN-Sen: MN Supreme Court complicates things — Daily Kos
Bumped. SusanG Decision is here (PDF). The court has ruled that the two campaigns and local election officials need to come up with a procedure to count those improperly rejected absentee ballots, and then count them. Of course, what happens when a campaign stalls or withholds agreement, ...
Bush v. Gore continues to haunt — Political Animal
BUSH V. GORE CONTINUES TO HAUNT.... The Mess in Minnesota just keeps getting stranger. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to block improperly rejected absentee ballots from Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, with his lawyer...
Court to Hear Coleman Suit Wednesday Afternoon — News
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear claims in Sen. Norm Coleman's (R) suit seeking to halt the count of untallied absentee ballots in Minnesota's contested Senate race Wednesday. In an order released Monday evening, Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Alan Page set an hour's worth of ...
Funny how Blagojevic is the ONLY corrupt midwestern pol getting attention — Brilliant at Breakfast
Isn't it interesting how the corporate media are completely ignoring the Ted Stevens-like scandal involving Minnesota's incumbent Republican Senator, Norm Coleman? It's no wonder Coleman is suing to stop the recount. He needs to have a court declare him the winner before too many details about ...
Rejected ballots headed for state Supreme Court (MN Recount) — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Star Tribune[/b] The campaign of Sen. Norm Coleman is taking its case to the state Supreme Court, asking the justices to order counties to follow a standard procedure in identifying wrongfully rejected absentee ballots. It is asking county officials to halt any counting of rejected ...
Norm Coleman Seeks To Stop Minnesota Recount — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Al Franken won a major procedural victory in the Minnesota Senate recount Friday, when the state canvassing board declared that rejected absentee ballots should be counted. Now Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is going to court to stop that count : The campaign of Sen. Norm Coleman is taking its ...
Norm Coleman Seeks To Stop Minnesota Recount — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The campaign of Sen. Norm Coleman is taking its case to the state Supreme Court, asking the justices to order counties to follow a standard procedure in identifying wrongfully rejected absentee ballots. It is asking county officials to halt any counting of rejected absentee ballots from the ...
Franken Camp: Coleman Is Desperate, Knows He's Going To Lose — TPM Election Central
In a press briefing just now, a very exuberant Franken campaign put forward a clear message about today's big news that the wrongly-rejected absentee ballots can be counted, which the Coleman campaign is trying to halt by going to court: Norm Coleman is desperate, because he knows he's going to ...
Down the ballot: It will never end… — First Read
COLORADO: Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is launching an online campaign to solicit suggestions on who should be appointed to fill Sen. Ken Salazar's seat. MINNESOTA: The Minneapolis Star Tribune says that a ruling by Minnesota’s highest ...
Ruling Favors Democrat in Contest in Minnesota — NYT > Politics
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that counties could count additional absentee ballots, which was a boost for Al Franken. >
Minn. court weighs rejected absentee ballots — msnbc.com: Politics
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to block improperly rejected absentee ballots from Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, with his lawyer warning that justices must act to prevent a repeat of the tortured 2000 ...