MN US Senate Recount starts Wednesday

Rejected Absentee Ballot Issue To Be Considered

 

Tomorrow morning when the recount in Minnesota's very close US Senate race starts the score will be "zero to zero" according to Al Franken's campaign manager Andy Barr.   The State Canvassing Board today ordered the recount which is required when the margin is less than .5%.  Below are videos as Franken's campaign argues that rejected absentee ballots should be considered and the Board decides to take some time to consider that request.

 

Also below, interviews with Norm Coleman's Attorney Fritz Knaak after the decision, a news conference with Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and an news conference with Al Franken's campaign manager Andy Barr.

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Decision On Rejected Absentee Ballots Will Wait

11/18/2008
Attorney for Al Franken's campaign, David Lillehaug argued befor the Minnesota Canvassing Board that rejected absentee ballots should be reviewed...
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Media Calls MN GOP Chair On Being "Presumptuous"

11/18/2008
Minnesota GOP Chair Ron Carey told reporters on Monday that it was "presumptuous" of Franken to take a trip to Washington, DC.  Franken is...
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Coleman Lead Grows To 215 After Mistake Found In Audit

11/18/2008
A mistake discovered in an Elk River precinct has given Norm Coleman 11 more votes and a 215 vote lead over Democratic challenger Al Franken in...
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Recount Observers Rebut GOP Ctiticism

11/15/2008
Common Cause, Citizens for Election Integrity and the League of Women Voters respond to GOP criticism of their alliance to conduct an...
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Recount, audit, canvass — what’s it all about?

 From The Daily Planet

Statewide election results — posted on the Secretary of State’s web site

Canvass is the county-by-county vote report turned in to the Secretary of State’s office, and reflected in the figures on the Secretary of State’s web site.

 

Audit is the legally-required hand recount of selected precincts to make sure that machine totals are not significantly different from actual totals. This is done after every election. That just-completed audit resulted in the change of ony six votes in the Senate race.

State Canvassing Board, made up of two Supreme Court judges, two District Court judges and the Secretary of State, will meet on November 18 to certify the count and official election results.


Recount will begin AFTER the State Canvassing Board meets on November 18 and officially orders a recount. The recount takes place in more than a hundred locations across the state, conducted by local election officials and then reported back to the State Canvassing Board.


Recount is required by state law whenever the vote margin between the two top candidates is less than one-half of one percent.MORE

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