Blue Earth Co MN Costs for Recount total $25,000 (billed to candidates).

Blue Earth County workers made nearly 20,000 copies, spent hundreds of hours of staff time and watched one copy machine succumb to the strain, but the county completed the work required by subpoenas in the ongoing Norm Coleman-Al Franken election contest.

The campaigns, among other things, demanded all voter rosters (nearly 3,600 pages), all absentee ballot applications (nearly 2,800 pages) and all accepted absentee ballot envelopes (more than 2,400 pages). In many cases, county workers needed to redact private information on the forms — a labor-intensive process.

The work began after a subpoena arrived from the Coleman campaign Jan. 8 — a subpoena that demanded the work be done by Jan. 14. Franken, the Democrat who holds a 225-vote lead going into the court phase of the long election battle, soon asked for a copy of virtually everything the Coleman campaign was seeking.

They also requested a list of all Blue Earth County election judges, and the judges in other counties already have faced depositions. O’Connor said she feels bad for the judges, who generally do the work for minimal pay out of a sense of civic duty.

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/local/local_story_024000949.html

This will help keep this in check with escalating costs it has to end sooner than later. Take $25,000 against many other counties and it adds up fast. Let's end this race for the good of the state Norm.