Recount Day 9: Challenges fall amid reports of newly found ballots
By Chris Steller |
12.02.08 | 9:29 pm
The campaigns of Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman slowed their ballot challenges on Tuesday in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election recount, setting aside only 60 ballots of the 36,238 recounted for future review by the State Canvassing Board. That suggests that Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s message about reining in challenges may have gotten through to the rival camps. But with U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s win putting a Democratic 60-vote majority in the Senate out of reach, whither CNN’s Anderson Cooper?
