Minnesota Panel Asks for Recount of Wrongly Rejected Ballots
By MICHAEL FALCONE
NYT
Update | 3:22 p.m. Responding to today’s developments, the Coleman campaign said it will ask the Minnesota Supreme Court to halt the recounting of the absentee ballots, pressing for uniformity in the way each of the state’s 87 counties identify the ones that were improperly rejected.
Update | 2 p.m. The statewide recount in Minnesota to determine the outcome of the Senate contest between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken took another turn today as the state canvassing board voted unanimously to ask counties to review hundreds of improperly rejected absentee ballots.
More than four dozen counties have already sorted through ballots and flagged 638 that were wrongly rejected. And the Minnesota secretary of state’s office estimated there could be as many as 1,500 such ballots throughout the state. On Friday Secretary of State Mark Ritchie called it a “significant number.” Additional counties will begin the sorting process today.
Recounting the ballots has the potential to tip the balance in the close race, and the absentee ballot issue has been pushed for weeks by the campaign of Mr. Franken, a Democrat, who by most counts, is trailing Mr. Coleman, the Republican incumbent.
(More here.)
NYT
Update | 3:22 p.m. Responding to today’s developments, the Coleman campaign said it will ask the Minnesota Supreme Court to halt the recounting of the absentee ballots, pressing for uniformity in the way each of the state’s 87 counties identify the ones that were improperly rejected.
Update | 2 p.m. The statewide recount in Minnesota to determine the outcome of the Senate contest between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken took another turn today as the state canvassing board voted unanimously to ask counties to review hundreds of improperly rejected absentee ballots.
More than four dozen counties have already sorted through ballots and flagged 638 that were wrongly rejected. And the Minnesota secretary of state’s office estimated there could be as many as 1,500 such ballots throughout the state. On Friday Secretary of State Mark Ritchie called it a “significant number.” Additional counties will begin the sorting process today.
Recounting the ballots has the potential to tip the balance in the close race, and the absentee ballot issue has been pushed for weeks by the campaign of Mr. Franken, a Democrat, who by most counts, is trailing Mr. Coleman, the Republican incumbent.
(More here.)
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