election contests
Ritchie: Making voters take absentee ballot errors to court is costly, stressful, ‘bad’
As the members of the Minnesota State Canvassing Board — with varying degrees of enthusiasm — fell in line Wednesday to reject Al Franken’s request that they count votes on improperly rejected absentee ballots in his U.S. Senate race with incumbent Norm Coleman, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie warned against leaving such problems for individual [...]









