minnesota.publicradio.org - 12/24/2008
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Minnesotans will not know whether Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman won the Senate race until next year. Election officials, along with the two campaigns, have agreed on a framework for adding wrongly-rejected absentee ballots to the recount.
New Low For Al Franken Campaign... Recount: The Movie
news.aol.com 12/11/2008 — I knew we would all live to regret Obama's after school special from the last week of the campaign. Now we have Franken putting out a web ad, presumably to influence the canvassing board, regarding rejected absentee ballots.
In case ...
FBI investigating Coleman, paper reports
politico.com 12/11/2008 — The Pioneer Press is reporting that Norm Coleman, narrowly ahead of Al Franken in the Minny recount, is facing what seems like a preliminary FBI probe into his connections to businessman-benefactor Nasser Kazeminy.
PP's Dave Orrick:
Federal ...
Franken Gets Big Win At Canvass Board
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/12/2008 — Al Franken's chances of winning the Minnesota recount may have just gone up astronomically.
The state canvassing board just voted unanimously that absentee ballots that were initially rejected because of clerical errors -- and the current estimate ...
Big Break for Franken
talkingpointsmemo.com 12/12/2008 — As I mentioned earlier, the Minnesota state canvassing board is meeting today to make some crucial decisions on the Senate race recount. Already this morning the board has unanimously decided to ask local election boards to count an estimated 1,600 ...
Franken-Coleman Update: Mo’ Ballots, Mo’ Better
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 12/12/2008 — Big news on the recount front today, all of it very good for Al Franken.
Good News Story #1: Both the Minnesota Independent and The UpTake report that the 133 Minneapolis ballots from the U of M precinct that were machine-counted on November 4 ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/14/2008 — This past Monday the city of Minneapolis announced that it was giving up the search for the 133 ballots that are allegedly missing from a heavily Democratic precinct. The 133 ballots netted Al Franken 46 votes. Up to that point the Franken campaign ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/16/2008 — Tomorrow the Canvassing Board presiding over the recount convenes to consider challenged ballots that were excluded because of their disputed status from the recount. At the urging of the Canvassing Board, both the Coleman and Franken campaigns are ...
AP: Franken Poised For Big Gains In Recount
huffingtonpost.com 12/16/2008 — ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jesus, Bob Dylan and Mickey Mouse will play a part in determining Minnesota's next senator. So will voters who scrawled the same name for every local race. And so will people who marked their choice not just with a darkened ...
Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To Finish Line
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/18/2008 — 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 ...
The Worst Ballot Challenge Of All
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/19/2008 — Looking back over today's meeting of the Minnesota state canvassing board, it's become painfully clear that Norm Coleman's big problem is that his ballot challenges are made up almost entirely of brazenly frivolous attempts to get votes for Al ...
Amanda Carpenter: Franken's Temporary Lead
townhall.com 12/19/2008 — Norm Coleman doesn't want anyone to get too worried about the lead Al Franken has over him right now in the contentious recount for Minnesota's Senate seat. "By the time you receive this email, the temporary lead that...
There’s Hope For Franken Yet
truthdig.com 12/19/2008 — BradBlog has the latest from the endless recount battle in Minnesota, where Al Franken has apparently pulled into a two-vote lead. Results are day-to-day, but the Star Tribune is predicting Franken will win out by fewer than 100 votes.
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With Key Phase In Recount Now Over, Franken Looks On Track To Win
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/20/2008 — The Minnesota state canvassing board has finished its review of challenged ballots today, and we can now say this: When all the dust settles, comedian and progressive activist Al Franken is very likely to become a United States Senator from ...
Franken Claims to Have Lead of 35-50 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 12/22/2008 — Missed this story yesterday, but: Al Franken’s campaign is as close to declaring victory as it has throughout the weeks-long recount in the Minnesota Senate race. Franken’s campaign attorney Marc Elias said he expects Franken to be leading Sen. Norm ...
Minnesota Senate Recount Heads for a Photo Finish
powerlineblog.com 12/23/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board has now allocated most of the ballots which the Franken and Coleman campaigns had challenged, but subsequently withdrew those challenges. As a result, Franken's lead has dwindled from 251 on Friday to 48 at the end of the ...
ACORN And SOROS Fingerprints On Franken Vote Grab
nicedeb.wordpress.com 12/24/2008 —
Figures:
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who orchestrated the recount that gave Democratic challenger Al Franken a lead some six weeks after incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day, has extensive ...
Will The Senate Seat Franken Provisionally?
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/29/2008 — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office is not yet committing to provisionally seating Al Franken, pending the outcome of the expected post-recount election contest litigation in Minnesota, as the date for new Senators to be sworn in gets closer ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update, 12/29/08: Meet Mark Ritchie —
Firedoglake
While we wait for the county and state canvassing boards to come back from their holiday break - as The UpTake notes, no official action will be made public on the recount front until tomorrow, though the Coleman campaign is already trying to be obstructionist yet again, this time by refusing ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update —
Weekly Standard Blog
On Christmas Eve, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down a decision that ensures the Franken-Coleman recount will not be resolved for at least a few more weeks.
Norm Coleman, who trails Franken by 46 votes, had filed a petition with the state supreme court to seek redress for the alleged ...
Senator Al Franken —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
A ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court has all but officially made Al Franken the winner in the Senate recount.
A state Supreme Court ruling Wednesday narrowed the options available for Sen. Norm Coleman to erase a slim lead held by DFLer Al Franken in the Minnesota election dispute, and ...
RNLA Lying About Minnesota Race —
Booman Tribune
Hopefully, comedian Al Franken will be the next senator from Minnesota. The recount currently favors him, but extremely narrowly. However, it appears that a Franken victory will be accompanied by six-year long conspiracy theory that he stole the seat. In an "urgent message" to supporters, the ...
Minnesota Supremes Grant Extension On Recount —
TPM Election Central
The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted a request from the Franken and Coleman campaigns to approve a framework for counting wrongly-rejected absentee ballots -- including an extension of the process into the first week of January, guaranteeing that this recount will last a little while longer. ...
Recount Update: The Duplicate Ballot Issue —
Power Line
The recount in the Coleman-Franken Senate race is drawing to a close, and the result depends on the outcome of the motion that the Coleman team argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court (minus two of its members who are serving on the Canvassing Board) this afternoon. The motion relates to ...
Minnesota Recount: Canvassing Board Lenient on Franken Voters —
Politics Daily
ColemanForSenate.com In this example there are two separate ballots, one with the Franken oval filled in, the other with the Coleman oval filled in. In both instances, an "X" covers the oval for both the Senate race and the Presidential race. However, the Board allocated the Franken vote for ...
Coleman Speaks: "The Numbers Look Good" —
The Latest on Air America
For the first time since the Minnesota Senate recount began between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken, Coleman spoke publicly to a local Minneapolis television station. Even though Franken is leading Coleman by 48 votes, Coleman believes he’ll win because according to him "the good ...
Coleman-Franken: December 22, 10:42 PM —
The Moderate Voice
According to various reports, Franken’s lead of 251 on Friday had dwindled to 48 at the end of yesterday’s Minnesota’s Canvassing Board actions.
The StarTribune.com reported last night:
As the U.S. Senate recount approaches another crossroad today, it appears that DFLer Al ...
Franken Leads By 48 Votes —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
With most ballot challenges settled, Al Franken holds a 48-vote lead over Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune analysis.
"The new unofficial numbers include most of the allocated votes, but not those from some unresolved ballot ...
Star Tribune: Franken Will Lead Recount By 48 Votes —
TPM Election Central
In the latest piece of evidence that Al Franken is the favorite to win the Minnesota recount, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has come up with a new number of where this should end up: Franken ahead by 48 votes, a margin of 0.00164% out of over 2.9 million cast, and at the upper end of the Franken ...
Franken Leads Coleman —
Corrente
This is excellent news ! Although I was hoping for a close Franken victory for purely personal reasons, I would be even more satisfied with a wider margin....
Coverage of this marathon recount (which if performed this way in Florida in 2000 would likely have given us Gore, rather than Bush ...
MN recount controversy hits YouTube —
First Read
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn the latest movement in never-ending Senate recount between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, the state canvassing board will meet tomorrow to decide the fate of hundreds of improperly rejected absentee ballots, as well as 133 ...
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