Posted: March 20, 2009
No news yet in the Minnesota Senate contest
The contest court has not issued any orders yet this week in the Coleman v. Franken contest. Last Friday, the contest court heard closing arguments in the case. This week the parties submitted their findings of fact and conclusions of law documents. Franken is asking the court to consider 430 rejected absentee ballots. He introduced complete evidence for 252 of these. Coleman seeks to have 1,369 rejected absentees counted by the court. See the Star Tribune coverage here. Yesterday, several reports revealed that Coleman attorney Joe Friedberg thinks the trial outcome will likely favor Franken but that an appeals court will have to decide the constitutional issues that Coleman’s team presented in their case. See the MinnPost.com coverage here. The Star Tribune also has a nice timeline of recount and contest events 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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