startribune.com - 12/29/2008
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Despite bickering earlier today, Coleman campaign staffers say Tuesday's regional meetings to sift through disputed ballots will be "very amiable."
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/24/2008
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Norm Coleman just got a Christmas present from
the Minnesota Supreme Court: A giant lump of coal....
In a unanimous decision handed down just now, the state Supremes denied Coleman any relief in a lawsuit he was waging to deal with allegations of ...
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Minnesota Supremes Shoot Down Crucial Coleman Lawsuit, ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/31/2008
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Al Franken could be declared the winner of
the Minnesota recount as soon as Monday, but due...
to the peculiarities of Minnesota election law, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) could keep the seat bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months before a ...
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Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep ...
startribune.com - 12/24/2008
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Big Surprise: Franken And Coleman Failing To Agree On Which Ballots To Count
TPM Election Central —
... So will any of the wrongly-rejected absentee ballots in Minnesota, which have been the subject of copious litigation between the Franken and Coleman campaigns, actually get counted? The latest report from the Star Tribune suggests it's going to be a rough time over the next few days, with the Franken camp calling for 1,346 ballots to be counted, while the Coleman team thus far wants to include...136. ...
Coleman Stalls Minnesota Recount Over Absentee Ballots
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the recount in Minnesota is stalling over absentee ballots. Democrat Al Franken wants all 1,346 of the ballots, deemed wrongfully rejected by the state, to be counted. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman has only agreed to 136. ...
Coleman Stalls Minnesota Recount Over Absentee Ballots
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the recount in Minnesota is stalling over absentee ballots. Democrat Al Franken wants all 1,346 of the ballots, deemed wrongfully rejected by the state, to be counted. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman has only agreed to 136. ...
File under: "Coleman, own petard, hoisted with"
The Reality-Based Community —
... The latest from the Coleman-Franken recount (from the Minnesota Star-Tribune): The campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken disagree over the number of absentee ballots that were improperly rejected and should now be counted. While Franken wants to count 1,346 ballots that county officials say were mistakenly rejected, Coleman for now is agreeing to count only 136 of them. Since the Minnesota Supreme Court ruling held that both campaigns had to agree on which absentee ballots are to be counted, isn't Franken's obvious response that he won't agree to count any absentee ...
Coleman Not in Giving Mood on Absentees
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... Stunningly, the Al Franken and Norm Coleman campaigns are having difficulty coming to a consensus on just which absentee ballots to count, in spite of having been ordered by the Minnesota Supreme Court to do so: ...
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The Recount Is Over
powerlineblog.com 12/7/2008 — With all votes now recounted, Norm Coleman has been re-elected to the Senate. I think. The Minnesota Secretary of State shows Coleman leading by 687 votes with 99.98% of precincts reporting--all but one. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman ...
Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
minnpost.com 1/8/2009 — Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
By Eric Black | Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Norm Coleman's statement announcing that he would contest the election result struck the right tone. But it seems unlikely that the courts will ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update III
powerlineblog.com 11/22/2008 — The Senate recount continues in Minnesota; well over half of all ballots will have been recounted by the end of the day. Challenges are increasing from both campaigns and tempers seem to be fraying, with the campaigns holding dueling press ...
Minnesota Recount: Absentee ballots opened today
hotair.com 1/5/2009 — The Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken will reach its natural conclusion today with the opening of as many as 2,000 absentee ballots mistakenly rejected on Election Night … [...] Read the rest »
Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It
fivethirtyeight.com 12/20/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board this afternoon completed the bulk of its review of challenged ballots. The Canvassing Board ruled upon 1,325 challenges, according to numbers prepared by the Star Tribune , including 852 challenges brought by the Coleman ...
Why we keep questioning the recount
scsuscholars.com 1/22/2009 — Suppose you are an election official in a precinct. You are collecting ballots with a machine that measures people as they come through the door. At one point your machine breaks down. You replace the machine with a backup, but you fail to turn that ...
In Minnesota, End of the Beginning Starts Today
fivethirtyeight.com 1/3/2009 — UPDATE (9:48 AM): The state will now begin counting the ballots; see The Uptake for live video coverage. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on Coleman's petition, nor was the recount team in St. Paul willing to delay the counting until it heard from ...
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 ...
Franken May Be Ceding Ground on Absentee Ballots
fivethirtyeight.com 12/31/2008 — In St. Louis County, one of the bluest areas in Minnesota, the Coleman campaign succeeded in blocking more than a third of absentee ballots set aside by the state for potentially being wrongfully rejected from being counted -- including one ballot ...
Minn.'s fight over rejected absentees —
First Read 12/29/2008
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Carrie Dann The next step in the Minnesota Senate race recount is to count the rejected absentee ballots -- estimated to number between 1,000 and 1,600.
Democratic challenger Al Franken 's campaign wants to ...
Coleman camp wants more ballots reviewed —
First Read 12/29/2008
From NBC’s Abby Livingston The Coleman camp is now asking for a review of an additional 654 absentee ballots they think have been wrongfully rejected. This number is separate from the 1,346 ballots local officials previously ...
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