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Coleman can’t win for losing: Peek at crib sheets gets witness’ testimony stricken

By Chris Steller | 02.25.09 | 7:22 pm

Testimony from a witness for Norm Coleman was stricken from the court record today when the three judges in Minnesota’s election contest trial agreed with Al Franken’s side that Coleman lawyers should not have shared notes with her during a…

Supes ’n’ Dupes: Minnesota Supreme Court grills recount rivals on duplicate ballots

By Chris Steller | 12.23.08 | 5:13 pm

The Minnesota Supreme Court was visited by ghosts of Last Week Past on Tuesday afternoon as the two sides in the statewide Senate recount paid their second visit in five days. Attorneys for Democrat Al Franken and Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman who debated last Friday about wrongly rejected absentee ballots argued over different issue today: the Coleman camp’s request to stop the recount to determine whether votes on ballots that were damaged and then duplicated for counting purposes on Election Day were counted twice during the recount.

More ballots found in Minneapolis?

By Paul Demko | 12.05.08 | 11:40 am

The recount picture in Minneapolis continues to get stranger. In scouring a warehouse this morning for the missing 133 ballots, election officials apparently discovered other votes that haven’t yet been included in the recount. Here’s the report