Posted: November 14, 2008
MN Senate: 11/14 Update
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's office is preparing local election officials for the Senate recount as a supplement to the already extensive training materials that have been posted on the Secretary's website for some time. The Secretary's Elections Director stressed that workers need to listen to the concerns of the campaigns while staying in control of the process, especially when it comes to processing challenged ballots. Ballots can be challenged only for cause.
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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