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TPM Election Central: Minneapolis Gives Up On Finding The Missing Ballots
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Minnesota Missing Ballots: Search Given Up
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The Page by Mark Halperin: Minnesota Gives Up on 133 Ballots
Hotline On Call Part Deux: Odds And Ends, The "Can Do Anything" Edition
Minneapolis Gives Up On Finding The Missing Ballots
TPM Election Central —
... Minneapolis has now called off the search for that missing envelope that's believed to contain 133 ballots favoring Al Franken, throwing yet another legal curveball into this never-ending recount. ...
Minnesota Missing Ballots: Search Given Up
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the hunt for missing ballots in Minnesota is off, at least for the moment:
The missing 133 ballots in a Minneapolis precinct are going to stay missing - at least for now.
City spokesman Matt Laible said today that officials had suspended the search for the ballots that began after they turned up missing in the waning hours of last week's U.S. Senate recount.
The matter will be turned over to the state Canvassing Board, which will decide whether the 133 will be officially counted, Laible ...
Minnesota Missing Ballots: Search Given Up
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the hunt for missing ballots in Minnesota is off, at least for the moment:
The missing 133 ballots in a Minneapolis precinct are going to stay missing - at least for now.
City spokesman Matt Laible said today that officials had suspended the search for the ballots that began after they turned up missing in the waning hours of last week's U.S. Senate recount.
The matter will be turned over to the state Canvassing Board, which will decide whether the 133 will be officially counted, Laible ...
Minnesota Gives Up on 133 Ballots
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Minneapolis officials announced they were abandoning their hunt for 133 missing ballots in the U.S. Senate recount.
Sen. Coleman's campaign raised concerns that "political spin" by Franken's camp might affect whether they'll ever be counted. ...
Odds And Ends, The "Can Do Anything" Edition
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... -- Democrat Al Franken's campaign pulled another 425 ballot challenges today, a campaign spokesman tells On Call, bringing the total yanked to 1058. Sen. Norm Coleman's camp has dropped about 650. And that search for the missing 133 Minneapolis ballots was called off today. The state canvassing board will decide if those ballots are ultimately counted. ...
Coleman-Franken: Update to the Update
The Moderate Voice —
... says
* Secretary of state says city has until December 16 to find the ballots
* Democrat Franken’s campaign: “Simply put, these ballots must be found”
* Incumbent GOP Sen. Coleman’s camp denies ballots are missing between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.
And, oh yes, a suggestion to “Stay tuned!”
To those who have had the fortitude and patience to do just that, here is the latest update from today’s Minnesota Star Tribune:
* The missing 133 ballots in a Minneapolis precinct are going to ...
Minnesota Gives Up on 133 Ballots
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Minneapolis officials announced they were abandoning their hunt for 133 missing ballots in the U.S. Senate recount.
Sen. Coleman's campaign raised concerns that "political spin" by Franken's camp might affect whether they'll ever be counted. ...
Coleman Campaign Still Denying There Are Missing Ballots
TPM Election Central —
... "The decision by a senior member of the secretary of state's office, as well as the secretary of state himself, to insist there are missing ballots when there are any number of other plausible scenarios is disappointing," Coleman spokesman Luke Friedrich told the Star Tribune, adding that officials should not be "just accepting the political spin of the Franken campaign." ...
Tuesday's campaign round-up
Political Animal —
TUESDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * For now, the 133 missing Minneapolis ballots in the unresolved Senate race in Minnesota are going to stay missing . * Obama and Biden will ...
