twincities.com - 12/12/2008
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Democrat Al Franken had a good morning at the state canvassing board, not only winning two decisions that could be critical in determining the outcome of the 2008 U.S. Senate race but getting a surprise gift from the city of Duluth. First, the board voted to count 133 missing ballots from a ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/12/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Al Franken's chances of winning the Minnesota recount
may have just gone up astronomically. The state canvassing...
board just voted unanimously that absentee ballots that were initially rejected because of clerical errors -- and the current estimate ...
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Franken Gets Big Win At Canvass Board
twincities.com - 12/11/2008
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twincities.com —
At least 358 Minnesotans did everything right on
their absentee ballots — they sent them in on...
time, signed them where they should have and were properly registered — but their votes were not counted. Those voters live in just 12 of the state's 87 ...
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In Senate recount, wrongly rejected votes seem more ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Al Franken may be the favorite to win
Minnesota's recount after all. The state's five-person Canvassing Board...
today issued two key rulings, both of which represent significant boosts to Franken. In the first ruling, issued at about 10 AM local time, ...
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Minnesota Canvassing Board Sides with Franken on Two Key ...
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State board will count missing Minneapolis ballots in Coleman-Franken Senate race
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... in Election Day totals because of an election judge error. Coleman has objected to the counting of improperly rejected absentee ballots, saying they should be dealt with in an election challenge overseen by a court. Coleman held a 215-vote lead over Franken prior to a statewide hand recount getting underway. Just who is ahead at this point is unclear because the candidates challenged the validity of 6,655 ballots. More than 2,000 of those challenges have been withdrawn. Read more: http://www.twincities.com/ci_11205362?nclick_check=1 While it looks like this will ...
MN-Sen: Good Day Gets Better
Swing State Project —
From the Pioneer Press:
Franken also received unexpected good news when Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann dropped a mini-bombshell, telling the board that in overwhelmingly Democratic Duluth - which has not officially tallied rejected absentees - about 40 percent of that city's 319 rejected absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected. Gelbmann said the city rejected the votes because either the voter or the witness did not date their signatures. He said he couldn't find any state law to support such a rejection.
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From NBC's Mark MurrayIn the latest in the Coleman-Franken recount, Minnesota's canvassing board today 1) recommended that counties begin counting mistakenly rejected absentee ballots, and 2) voted to count the missing 133 ballots from a Minneapolis ...
The Caucus: Minn. Panel Rules on Rejected Ballots —
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In what may be the most important decision of the Minnesota vote recount, the state Canvassing Board has asked county election boards to count all wrongly rejected absentee ballots cast in ...
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