twincities.com - 12/10/2008
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Minnesota's largest city has identified 171 absentee ballots that may have gone uncounted because of an error, potentially bolstering Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken's call for a statewide search for such ballots. Tuesday's development in heavily Democratic Minneapolis could help ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/12/2008
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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
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/5/2008
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So what exactly happens if that missing envelope
from Minneapolis, which is believed to contain 133 votes
that heavily favored Al Franken, is simply never found? Could the recount just be certified without it? A state official just confirmed to ...
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Official: Lost Ballots Could Be Restored In Final Count, ...
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Even More Ballots In Minnesota?
TPM Election Central —
... Minneapolis officials have finished sorting through rejected absentees -- and it turns out that 171 ballots appear to have not been rejected for any legal cause at all, but were instead thrown out because of administrative errors. If these votes were put back in, they would probably break heavily to Al. ...
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Political Animal —
... . * Just what Minnesota needed: 171 absentee ballots in Minneapolis that "may have gone uncounted because of an error." * RNC chairman Mike Duncan will reportedly ...
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