Posted: February 23, 2009
Coleman seeks to apply Feb. 13 order to all 290,000+ absentee ballots
Coleman now seeks to have the contest court's Feb. 13 order partially defining what constitutes an illegally cast ballot applied to all 290,000+ absentee ballots cast in the 2008 election. See the memo supporting the motion here. The MinnPost.com story is here and the Pioneer Press story is here. Other Coleman v. Franken documents can be found here. In the memo, Coleman does not propose a specific method for removing any illegal votes. It instead focuses on the right of and need for the court to determine which votes were legally cast and to count only those.
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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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