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Tom Emmer drops 2,580 frivolous ballot challenges
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer withdrew 2,580 ballot challenges over the weekend after the State Canvassing Board gave the go-ahead for the campaigns to evaluate those frivolous ballots. In the end, the Emmer team narrowed the number of frivolous challenges that it will send to the board to just 24.MORE »
News Day: GM in MN / Franken-Coleman blow-by-blow / Health care saga / more
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MN Supreme Court hears Franken-Coleman contest
Every ballot tells a story. Or maybe it doesn’t.
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News Day: Michelle Bachmann, Norm Coleman / Health care in jeopardy / Swine flu updates / more
Mad Michelle Minute Minnesota Independent chronicles the latest Bachmania, reporting that Bachmann offered an amendment to the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act to ban groups facing federal indictment for voter fraud from receiving federal foreclosure rMORE »
Specter switches, making 60 Democrats in Senate — with Franken
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter announced today that he is switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party and will run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010. That means Minnesota’s empty U.S. Senate seat could become the Democrats’ sixtieth — the number needed to break a Republican filibuster.MORE »
And then there were two? Recusals in Coleman case could whittle state high court below quorum
Pinch hitters could be called up to help the Minnesota Supreme Court handle Norm Coleman’s election-contest appeal if more justices recuse themselves.
Two of the seven high-court justices have already said they won’t deliberate on the case.MORE »
News Day: Court: Franken won, and not one of Coleman’s claims was legit / Cops and fairy tales / Mpls Somali news / more
Franken won, and not one of Coleman's claims was legit In a 68-page opinion (PDF), the three-judge recount court knocked down every sMORE »
Court: Franken won, and Minnesotans "should be proud of their election system"
Franken won. That's the conclusion of the 68-page ruling handed down Monday evening by the three-judge recount court, completing their work. They wrote:
The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the November 4, 2008 election was conducted fairly, impartially, and accurately. [Citations omitted] ...MORE »
Pawlenty hems, haws on if he’ll OK new senator after state high court rules
Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might not sign an election certificate to seat Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S.MORE »
News Day: Budget as moral document / Pork on the hill / Tax analysis / Take two aspirin / more
Budget as moral document "We're in this together," Rev. Peter Rogness, bishop of the St. Paul Area Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, reminds us, writing about Minnesota's budget in MinnPost.MORE »
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