Minnesota Board Holds Key Meeting Friday on Disputed Senate Race

Minnesota Board Holds Key Meeting Friday on Disputed Senate Race
By Emily Cadei, CQ Staff


Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken is stepping up his public relations campaign in advance of a pivotal election hearing being held by the state’s canvassing board Friday as part of the effort to determine a winner in the hotly-contested Senate race between Franken and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

The race was the closest Senate race in the country this year and the lone outstanding contest of 2008.

Franken staff launched a web video yesterday featuring voters whose absentee ballots were rejected — they say incorrectly — and filed a legal brief with the state’s canvassing board listing information on 62 such voters, all as part of a push to ensure wrongly rejected absentee ballots are included in the certified recount totals.

The canvassing board is responsible for certifying the state’s election totals, which requires re

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It's like they want to be Florida or something. Have an election. Count the votes. It ain't rocket science.