Senate recount: Battle of ballot disputes set to begin (flag)

www.startribune.com — A state board prepared to rule today on ballots where voter intent was in question in the hotly contested Senate race.

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Battle of Ballot Disputes Set to Begin
The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com — ... State board prepared to rule on ballots where voter intent was in question in the hotly contested Minnesota Senate race.       ...

Battle of Ballot Disputes Begins Tuesday
The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com — ... The Minnesota State Canvassing Board is expected to begin ruling on ballot disputes that could decide the remaining open U.S. Senate race.       ...

Minnesota Senate recount, update XII
Power Line — ... and the Star Tribune (via readers' evaluations) say that the resolution of the challenged ballots may net Franken enough votes to win, but so narrowly that it's hard to make anything of it. ...

Worried in Minnesota
The Corner — Tuesday, December 16, 2008 [image] Worried in Minnesota [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] That's what I'm dubbing Powerline 's Scott Johnson. I checked in with him this morning on the latest in the Senate negotiations there. I asked him if he is worried. The answer is: An emphatic yes. Here's Scott: "The Board of Canvassers meets today to begin ruling on the remaining challenged ballots that have yet to be tabulated in the recount. Both the Associated Press and the Star Tribune (via readers’ evaluations) say that the resolution of the challenged ballots ...

Final ballots will be counted this week in Minnesota Senate race
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — It's down to some remaining absentee ballots and the challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. Today, the five-member Canvassing Board starts sorting through the challenged ballots of which there are now approximately 1,500. It's not certain where we'll be at the end of the week, but, two analyses think the results could favor Al Franken: ...

Analysis Shows Franken Catching Coleman
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — The Minneapolis Star Tribune has performed its own analysis of the challenged ballots in Minnesota's disputed U.S. Senate race "by relying on a virtual ' ...

It's All About Norm's Lawyers
Daily Kos — ... as the challenged ballots are considered, and according to today's Star Tribune, a "virtual canvassing board" found that Franken is likely to pull ahead by the time the recount concludes. ...

Remainders: Caroline
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama discussed Iraq, length of school year and dog poop with mini-interviewers. The New Yorker has been talking about Caroline for more than forty years. (Read to the end for Hillary anecdote.) Picking her might be a bad career choice for Gov. Paterson. Murdoch's on board. Noam is still skeptical. The Daily Beast thinks Blago and the scandal coverage are the spiked eggnog of Republicans. The Star Tribune makes its own Franken-Coleman recount. No White House for Hildebrand, ...

Minnesota Board Rules on Disputed Ballots
Weekly Standard Blog — ... When the canvassing board took up the challenged ballots, Coleman led Franken by 192 votes, but analsyes by the AP and readers of the Star Tribune suggest that Franken is on pace to gain slightly more than 192 votes among the challenged ballots and thus take the lead. ...