The Great Minnesota Recount is over, and today Al Franken will assume his seat as our junior senator. When I placed my signature on the certificate of election that concluded our 2008 U.S. Senate race, I could hear a collective sigh of relief from my fellow secretaries of state from around the country.
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In a major shift in strategy, the GOP camp wants all 12,000 ballots reviewed.
In the clearest sign yet that he has dramatically shifted strategies since falling behind in the U.S. Senate recount, Republican Norm Coleman's campaign said Monday that it will push to have all 12,000 absentee ballots rejected in the election reconsidered and to ensure that those wrongly set aside are counted.
View Entire Article HereColeman is casting wider net for votes
In their fight to overturn the U.S. Senate recount, Norm Coleman's legal team has begun pressing some Minnesota counties for documents on hundreds of thousands of ballots that were not previously disputed.
View Entire Article HereWith a celebrity candidate and record-setting expenditures the race to represent Minnesota in the US Senate captured the nation’s attention even before the historically close margin was announced.
An automatic, manual recount of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race that began could last until mid-December. As non-partisan, election integrity advocates in Minnesota, we welcome this attention and hope that one of the outcomes will be lessons learned that strengthen our democracy.
Democrat Al Franken and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman — locked in a race that could alter the power structure of Washington — are continuing their fight as officials begin a recount Wednesday that is expected to last for weeks.
View Entire Article HereFears of e-voting glitches in the November election are still not over.
The outcome of the Minnesota Senate race--which could give the Democrats a firmer grasp on power in Washington--may depend on whether scanning machines made mistakes two weeks ago when tabulating ballots.
View Entire Article HereST. PAUL — The vote gap between the two candidates in Minnesota’s still-undecided Senate race — the longest, closest and costliest in state history — has narrowed since Election Day, but the hostility and vitriol surrounding the race seem to grow by the hour.
A record 2.9 million Minnesotans went to the polls on Nov. 4. Unofficial returns the next morning showed the incumbent Republican senator, Norm Coleman, with a 725-vote lead over his Democratic challenger, the comedian Al Franken. Since then, as county canvassers certified results and election errors were corrected, that lead dwindled to 206 votes, seven-thousandths of 1 percent.
View Entire Article HereThat's a worry of election officials planning for a "perfect storm" of record turnout and voting systems in flux -- though the outlook is more favorable in Minnesota.
WASHINGTON -- Alicia Strange, a newly registered Minnesota voter, has waited decades to cast her first vote. At 45, she doesn't care if long lines keep her waiting a few more hours.
"I'm just going to take my time and let it all marinate," said Strange, a security guard from Brooklyn Park who remains undecided in the presidential race.
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