Posted: December 17, 2008
MN Senate race - Canvassing board finishes reviewing Franken's challenges
The canvassing board has finished reviewing the Franken campaign's challenges. Of 414 ballots reviewed, 233 were allocated to Coleman, 64 to Franken and 117 to the Other category. The board is taking a break and will begin to review Coleman's challenges when it returns. The Coleman campaign indicated that it may reinstate some of its the challenges it withdrew after seeing how the board decided some of the Franken campaign's challenges. Watch the canvassing board's meeting here.
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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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