Voters ask court to add absentees to MN Recount (click here)
By (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota voters have waded into the state's U.S. Senate election fracas as Republican Norm Coleman fights for the inclusion of disqualified absentee ballots.
By (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota voters have waded into the state's U.S. Senate election fracas as Republican Norm Coleman fights for the inclusion of disqualified absentee ballots.
Six voters told their personal stories to a three-judge panel yesterday, saying their ballots had been unfairly rejected.
A statewide recount gives Democrat Al Franken a 225-vote edge. Coleman thinks he'll have the edge, and the win, if the additional votes are counted.
Yesterday, much of the panel's time was spent with state officials, lawyers and court staff working out a plan to get about 11,000 rejected ballots to St. Paul from counties throughout the state.
The case is expected to last weeks.
