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Source: Star Tribune
The recount of the closest U.S. Senate race in Minnesota history will be directed by a freshman elections chief -- a liberal DFLer who won election two years ago after accusing his Republican predecessor of bringing partisan bias to her official duties.
..."Minnesotans have an expectation of a nonpartisan election recount," Ritchie said late last week.
Yet a fight with partisan overtones is shaping up over the recount of the race between U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, a Republican, and Democrat Al Franken.
On Friday, the Coleman campaign questioned the integrity of the vote counting by citing "improbable shifts" in vote tallies that it said benefited Franken.
Ritchie responded by scolding the Coleman campaign for trying "to create a cloud" over the recount and "denigrating the election process."
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As a Minnesotan, i truely believe Secretary of State Mark Ritchie will do everything in his power to keep the process fair.
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