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Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota Senate Race
Posted by Greg Laden on April 13, 2009 The judicial panel hearing Coleman’s challenge against Franken in the Minnesota Senate Race has made its decision: Franken is the the winner of the election and should be certified. The procedure is this: A ten day period occurs after which the Governor certifies the election. Unless there is a challenge in the State Supreme Court.…
Franken Lead Increases in Minnesota Senate Race
Posted by Greg Laden on April 7, 2009 According to news reports, the Minnesota Election Contest Judicial Panel finished their review of votes, counting just under 400 absentee ballots that were previous excluded. These votes were included as the result of Former Senator Norm Coleman’s legal challenge to the election. With Senator Al Franken’s lead over Former Senator Norm Coleman rising from 225…
Minnesota Recount Update
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2009 The three judge panel convened for the purpose of addressing the Coleman challenge of the Minnesota Senate Election won by Al Franken (after a detailed recount) will meet today to examine ballots they had asked brought to the court. The panel had asked for four hundred ballots, but a small number of these (just over…
Sudden movement in the Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2009 The judicial panel that has been off somewhere deciding what to do about the Coleman election challenge has ordered 400 additional ballots opened and counted on April 7th. If (and we do not know this for a fact) these are THE remaining ballots to count, them Coleman would have to get a statistically unlikely majority…
Rachel Maddow on the Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2009 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Note the continued threats of violence by the Right Wing. We continue to await word from the court.
Minnesota Senate Recount: Refining the prediction on how it ends
Posted by Greg Laden on March 24, 2009 In conversation with reporters earlier today Coleman noted that he does not anticipate this case going to the US Supreme Court, though he did apparently say this in his usual smarmy way so he can change his mind later. He did indicate that he DOES anticipate bringing the case to the Minnesota Supreme Court if…
Minnesota Recount End Is In Sight
Posted by Greg Laden on March 23, 2009 So, my friend Phil was in the Air Force up near Grand forks (where the flooding is happening now). He told me today they use to use a super tall radio tower to spot weather, and this tower was something like 70 miles away. So it was in sight, but almost unbelievably so. Similarly, there…
Republican Senator Calls for “Civil Disobedience” In Opposing Democrats and President Obama
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2009 This is interesting, if true, and it is mostly about legislation regulating access to reproductive services at the federal and state level. I have a column written by conservative Charles Biggs that makes the claim that Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, is “telling us that if the federal government tries to lift all restrictions…
I had no idea Ben Frankelin was Jewish….
Posted by Greg Laden on March 17, 2009 Oh, but wait, he wasn’t. But Al Franken IS. That’s Franken, zero els. A group promoting United States-Israel ties is raising funds for Norm Coleman with an e-mail that opens by referring to Al Franken by the not-particularly-Jewish-sounding name “Franklin”: We are making an appeal for one of our friends and steadfast supporters of US-Israel…
Give Some Money to Al Franken!!!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2009 Seriously! The Franken team is now entering the ‘defense’ phase of the absurd Election Challenge launched by Norman Coleman, who lost the election for Senate to Al Franken but who refuses to give up his seat. If everybody who reads this blog sends five dollars to Al, they’ll have enough to … well, to make…
Coleman rests, pays fine, asks Judges to overturn election.
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2009 Norm Coleman had to pay a $7,500 fine yesterday for failure to disclose important evidence in the 26 day long Franken-Coleman Senatorial Election Challenge Trial. The plaintiff, Coleman, also claimed in a written statement to the court that since the number of illegal votes cast in this election exceeds the narrow margin of difference between…
Franken Coleman MN Senate Recount Update
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2009 Ana has contributed a detailed comment.
Coleman Goof
Posted by Greg Laden on February 25, 2009 So Ana IM’s me, and I can tell through the text that she was almost out of breath with excitement or fear or something. But then I remembered shes been observing the Minnesota Senate court challenge. Turns out something rather interesting happened. Luckily, TPM has it covered: Norm Coleman’s lawyers just had a very awkward…
Major Setback for Coleman
Posted by Greg Laden on February 14, 2009 In his bid to Take The Senate No Matter What, Norm Coleman has been trying to get a very large number of previously rejected absentee ballots counted. Most of these ballots were not counted because they were truly borked. Folks, remember this: If you are going to vote absentee, keep in mind the fact that…
Coleman Promises to Not Take Recount to US Courts!
Posted by Greg Laden on February 13, 2009 “While Al Franken, Harry Reid and their allies will likely continue their efforts to short-circuit Minnesota election law, you can be assured that I will continue fighting to ensure the Minnesota voters – and nobody else! – will truly decide who won this election.” Source: MnIndy
Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount: Restart
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2009 At 1:00 PM Central Time court procedings being in the Franken-Coleman senate race. A three judge state court will ultimately hear and rule on a lawsuit essentially filed by Coleman’s team. The suit, an “election contest,” alleges a number of problems with the current nearly-certified recount which gives Franken a small lead over Coleman. All…
Michele Bachmann on the Franken Coleman Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on January 14, 2009 What a moron. A lying moron, if you must know. I love it: “Fair Judge = Norm Coleman Wins”
Franken Counter Filing
Posted by Greg Laden on January 13, 2009 Al Franken has, as his his right and duty, filed papers to the court now reviewing Coleman’s suit regarding the Minnesota Senate Race. Eric Kleefeld has an excellent summary of the paper. You can read the papers here, and read Eric’s summary here. Oh, and if you want a real laugh, you can read Coleman’s…
Norm Coleman’s Chances of Winning the Minnesota Senate Seat
Posted by Greg Laden on January 11, 2009 …. via his court challenge of the recount that places Al Franken ahead are assessed by Eric Kleefeld: The complaint ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting and opposes the same maneuver when it goes against them, attacks not just the recount but votes that were counted for Franken all…
Tainting Franken: The real reason for the Coleman law suit
Posted by Greg Laden on January 7, 2009 And other Republican Hypocrisy. The long term plan is to keep Franken out of the Senate forever. Not likely to work. The short term plan is to “taint” Franken, so that morons like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan (MSNBC) and Ann Coulter can constantly refer to “Franken” and “Tainted” in the same sentence again and again…
Five Thirty Eight Eviscerates the Wall Street Journal
Posted by Greg Laden on January 6, 2009 The Wall Street Journal published an editorial yesterday called “Funny Business in Minnesota” which is so full of inaccurate innuendo and fallacious factoids that when I read it I thought I was reading a piece of junk mail from Ann Coulter. Well, the honorable web site Five Thirty Eight has torn the WSJ a new…
Coleman is filing a law suit related to the Minnesota senatorial race.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 6, 2009 Details are just coming in now. LIVEBLOGGED They are suing regarding: the missing ballots from Minneapoilis (that won’t go anywhere, already settled); Double counting (that issue was killed off already, it will go no where) and absentee ballots (they have a small chance that this may develop into something). They state that they will win…
The Minnesota Recount is Over
Posted by Greg Laden on January 5, 2009 As many of you have already heard, the recount process in Minnesota to determine the outcome of the Senatorial race is over, and Al Franken has been certified as winner. There is now a review period of seven days during which any voter in the state of Minnesota. Including me, Al Franken, whomever, can sue…
Someone on the internet agrees with me
Posted by Greg Laden on January 4, 2009 … regarding the likely response by Coleman following the certification of the Minnesota Senatorial Race tomorrow (Monday) by the Canvassing Board. No matter who wins, either party can lodge a legal challenge, potentially pushing the election results out quite a period of time from now. In 1969, Minnesota was unable to certify their Senator until…
Franken lead rises to over 200
Posted by Greg Laden on January 3, 2009 And the worst case scenario is that this lead could drop by far less then necessary to turn the race around. Everyone assumes that the loser, in this case Coleman, will file a law suit. It would fit with how the game has been played so far. But what would such a law suit do?…
The Next Step in The Franken-Coleman Senate Race
Posted by Greg Laden on January 2, 2009 I live in Minnesota, and our team is the Vikings. So I know something about losing, and from this perspective, I can explain to you what Norm Coleman is doing.
New Analysis of the Franken-Coleman Senate Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on January 1, 2009 The current situation is this: We are waiting for a final decision next week on the outcome of the race, and most likely this outcome will start numerically with Franken’s current 49 vote lead and be adjusted by the addition of several hundred absentee ballots. The exact number of these ballots to consider is still…
Republicans Issue Obnoxious Statement
Posted by Greg Laden on December 31, 2008 … regarding the Franken-Coleman Recount. Remember Norm Coleman declaring victory over and over again when he was a couple of hundred votes ahead, prior to the recount? Remember Norm Coleman declaring that the only right thing to do was for Franken to simply withdraw from the race? The RNC has issued this statement: WASHINGTON, Dec.…
Franken Coleman Update
Posted by Greg Laden on December 30, 2008 The next few days will be the most interesting, potentially, in the Franken Coleman recount. Notice that I do not use any words like “Debacle, Fiasco, Circus, Swampmire” and so on when speaking of the recount. This is because this is a democratic (as in America! The Greatest Democracy in the World Love it or…
Minnesota Franken-Coleman Senate Race: Recount Ends Today
Posted by Greg Laden on December 23, 2008 Most of the work related to the ongoing recount in the Minnesota Senate race ended week when the canvassing board went through almost all of the challenged ballots, assigning them to either Franken, Coleman, or “other.” Many ballot challenges issued earlier by one campaign or the other were withdrawn but for clerical reasons could not…
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