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Capitol View®

Reporting on State Politics and Government

The Daily Digest: 12-4-08

Al Franken’s campaign withdraws 633 ballots. More ballots discrepancies were found. This time it’s in Minneapolis and cost Franken some votes, which the campaign is protesting. MPR, the Pi Press, AP, the Star Tribune and Forum Communications have stories. The latest numbers compared to Election Day totals show Norm Coleman with a lead. Franken’s campaign…
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Question: Where’s Norm Coleman? Attorney: Out of the way.

Norm Coleman’s campaign attorney was asked today what role Coleman was playing in the recount. Here’s Fritz Knaak’s response: “He has largely stayed out of the way and done largely Senatorial things and left the recount to the recount team. I haven’t been directed to do anything by him. I haven’t been told not to…
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Easy come, easy go for Franken…

The recount in Minneapolis has found that the ballot is 133 votes short of the votes counted on Election Day. Minneapolis Elections Director Cindy Reichert said she believes elections officials in the precinct ran some ballots through the machine twice. Campaign officials say Franken lost 36 votes. Franken’s campaign says the explanation doesn’t make sense…
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The Daily Digest: 12-3-08

Scott and Wright Counties begin recounting votes today. On Tuesday, the news was dominated with newly discovered ballots in Ramsey County. Meanwhile both campaigns say they will withdraw challenged ballots (which they have said again and again and again). The Secretary of State’s office also called on all elections officials to sort their rejected absentee…
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The cheese stands alone….

Minnesota is the cheese now that GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss has been declared the winner in Georgia’s runoff. Question(s) of the Day: Do the Democrats take the foot off the pedal in Minnesota now that they can’t reach 60 Senate seats? What does this mean for Minnesota’s Senate contest? Discuss…
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The challenged ballots

There has been a lot made about the disputed ballots in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. The Secretary of State’s office released the first batch of about 1,000 yesterday afternoon. A team of dedicated MPR news folks examined each and every ballot and found that many of the challenges were frivolous. You can play election judge…
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Ramsey County finds ballots

Ramsey County elections officials found 171 ballots that weren’t counted on election night. On MPR’s Midday, Ramsey County Elections director Joe Mansky said the ballots were found in a machine that broke down on election day. He said the machine was replaced but the ballots weren’t scanned through. The Associated Press is reporting that Democrat…
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Pawlenty on rescue package

Gov. Pawlenty met with President-elect Obama this morning in Philadelphia. He was part of a bipartisan group of governors that met with Obama. Pawlenty had a conference call with Minnesota’s press corps just a few minutes ago. Even with a deficit looming, Gov. Pawlenty said on the call that a federal bailout for states may…
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The Daily Digest: 12-2-08

As the recount continues, the latest numbers from the Secretary of State’s office show Democrat Al Franken is ahead in the actual vote totals but GOP Sen. Norm Coleman leads in the head to head vote comparison. The Franken campaign says it will also start withdrawing some challenges. AP and the Star Tribune have stories.…
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