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Minnesota Senate recount update, update VIII
Power Line —
... The Franken campaign and its allies such as Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman are now focusing on rejected absentee ballots. In today's Star Tribune Kevin Duchschere shows that Ritchie is now improvising in advance of the state Canvassing Board meeting today which will consider the treatment of rejected absentee ballots: ...
Franken’s Attention Turning to Absentee Ballots
California Conservative —
In this morning’s Strib, Kevin Duchshere reports that Team Franken has started turning its attention towards absentee ballots that were rejected. I suspect that they’ve done this because they understand that they won’t catch Sen. Coleman in the hand recount phase of the process. Here’s what Mr. Duchshere is reporting:
Democrat Al Franken’s campaign last week argued before the Canvassing Board that improperly rejected absentee ballots should be identified and counted and that the board has the authority to do it. The campaign of Republican Sen. Norm Coleman argues that it’s a matter to be decided by the ...
Minnesota Recount: Good news/bad news
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Minnesota Recount: Good news/bad news posted at 12:01 pm on November 26, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly We’ll start with the good news in the Minnesota Recount, at least from Norm Coleman’s perspective. The expected gain for Al Franken in the heavily DFL counties of Hennepin (Minneapolis) and Ramsey (St. Paul) appears to have gone bust. Coleman has actually gained in Hennepin, according to the Pioneer Press : Are the piles of recounted ballots from red counties, where Republican Sen. Norm Colman might be expected to pick up a few stray votes? Or blue counties, where DFL challenger Al ...
Lengthening the game #mnrecount
SCSUScholars —
Gary Gross, in his canvassing board liveblog says the Minnesota State Canvassing Board has voted to not consider rejected absentee ballots. This was to be expected of course; Gary notes Chief Supreme Court Justice Eric Magnuson saying the board is not an adjudicative body. This was merely a prelude to the court case in which the Franken campaign will seek to get more ballots counted. But the board decided at the end to provide some guidance to county election officials. In short, if an absentee ballot was rejected without there being a reference to why it was rejected in state statute, it was to be placed in a "fifth pile" (there are four ...
