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Why the Republican incumbent didn’t appeal in Minnesota’s last great recount

By Chris Steller | 04.24.09 | 5:40 pm

elandersen-headUnlike Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent in Minnesota’s last great recount did not appeal to the state Supreme Court. Gov. Elmer L. Andersen faced, as Coleman has, a ruling by a specially empaneled court that his Democratic