startribune.com - 1/3/2009
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A Supreme Court order requested by Norm Coleman could change things, but the counting of wrongly rejected absentee ballots is to start today.
startribune.com - 1/2/2009
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Meanwhile Back At The MN-Sen Recount . . .
TalkLeft —
The latest, via the Strib: Hennepin County finished its review of 326 rejected absentee ballots late this morning, with the Coleman and Franken campaigns agreeing to count nearly 80 percent of them. In the state’s most populous county, 255 absentee ballots that county election officials acknowledged were mistakenly rejected were accepted by the two campaigns after a two-day, mostly-uneventful review. Seventy-four were rejected. The rejections were roughly evenly split between the two campaigns, with Franken rejecting 36 ballots, Coleman 33, and ...
Recount Resumes in Minnesota
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
As Minnesota officials prepare to count 953 disputed absentee ballots from November's U.S. Senate race, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the state Supreme court "is expected to decide soon whether to instead open the door to a new centralized review of about 2,000 such ballots, as requested by Sen. Norm Coleman -- or at least order the review of hundreds of additional ballots identified by the Coleman and Al Franken campaigns." ...
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