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Minnesota Election Panel Considers Absentee Ballots Friday
The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com — ... The state Canvassing Board meets Friday morning to scrutinize rejected absentee ballots to help push the unresolved Senate race to conclusion. Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a member of the board, is expected to hold a press conference after the session.        ...

Big boost for Franken
Political Animal — ... a court order if necessary. Because of all that, it seems very likely that the vast majority of these ballots will be counted before this is over -- and it could possibly seal the deal for Franken. Pre-election polling showed him winning the overall pool of absentee ballots by a solid margin, so it seems pretty reasonable to assume that the newly-counted votes will break for Al. If that proves to be correct, Franken will probably pull ahead of Norm Coleman and win the election. The Star Tribune ...

Minnesota Canvassing Board Sides with Franken on Two Key Issues, Sending Coleman to Court
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... The Coleman campaign, however, is now asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to halt the counting of the absentee ballots until, per the Star Tribune's reporting, "the justices can rule on the campaign's request that they order counties to follow a standard procedure in identifying wrongfully rejected ballots." For the time being, the Coleman campaign merely appears to be seeking a constituent standard for the counting of the absentee ballots, rather than to preclude them from being counted in their entirety, ...

Democrat Al Franken made progress today in Minnesota
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... The Franken campaign wanted those absentee ballots counted, so this is good news. The Coleman campaign doesn't want the ballots counted, so they're going to court. ...

You Can Call Me Happy Al
Hotline On Call Part Deux — Democrat Al Franken got some long-awaited good news today when the MN Canvassing Board, which is supervising a recount of the state's Senate contest between Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman, voted unanimously to ask election officials in MN's 87 counties to identify and count improperly rejected absentee ballots. MN Star Tribune: "Several hundred absentee ballots have been wrongfully rejected in the Nov. 4 election and that total could more than double by the time all Minnesota counties turn in their ...

minnesota canvassing board sides with him, al franken
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... the coleman campaign, however, is now asking the minnesota supreme court to halt the counting of the absentee ballots until, per the star tribune's reporting, "the justices can rule on the campaign's request that they order counties to follow a standard procedure in identifying wrongfully rejected ballots." for the time being, the coleman campaign merely appears to be seeking a constituent standard for the counting of the absentee ballots, rather than to preclude them from being counted in their entirety, ...

'Daily Voting News' For December 12, 2008
The BRAD BLOG — ... machine counts accurate http://www.courant.com/n...itsdec12,0,4332735.story CT: Opinion - Results of 2008 post election audit show accurate Election Day machine counts http://www.norwalkplus.c...machine-counts2923.shtml CT: Clayton election decided by drawing names http://www.newsobserver..../news/story/1331389.html MN: State: Wrongfully rejected absentee ballots could near 1,600 http://www.startribune.c...Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs MN: ...

Franken Gets A Boost
Weekly Standard Blog — The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: DFLer Al Franken's campaign scored significant victories in the U.S. Senate recount Friday, as the state Canvassing Board approved the use of Election Day results for 133 Minneapolis ballots that can't be found and also recommended that counties sort and count absentee ballots that were mistakenly rejected. But the five-member board revealed some fissures. That came when its two Supreme Court justices put the brakes on the apparent hopes of its two district court judges to declare in ...