The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, Dec. 23: At a recent hearing over the Senate vote recount in his state, Justice Paul Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court apparently took umbrage when an attorney suggested that the prolonged dispute was turning into a debacle along the lines of the Florida presidential vote in 2000. "This is not Florida," harrumphed the judge by way of reply. "This is Minnesota." No kidding?
By KEVIN HASSETT THE MINNESOTA Senate race between Democratic comedian Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman has turned toward Franken.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - This coming week, Minnesota's Canvassing Board will declare what everyone's been waiting for in the state's prolonged U.S. Senate race: A winner. Well, sort of.
Live f rom Minnesota, it's ... a hotly contested Senate race and recount fight Political tensions are running high in the Land of 10,000 Lakes as election officials prepare to recount 2.9 million ballots in the state's closest U.S. Senate race in history. An improbable 204 votes separate Sen. Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent, who is leading his opponent, former "Saturday Night Live" actor-comic Al Franken of the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party. That number is down from the 221 figure last week, but even that is expected to change as ballots are recounted statewide.
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Republican National Committee Press Office, +1-202-863- 8614
ST. PAUL, Minn. - For a breathtakingly close contest that consumed nearly eight months with vote counts, recounts and courtrooms, the race for Minnesota's second Senate seat ended in a flash. Minnesota's Supreme Court swept aside Norm Coleman's appeal at the stroke of 1 p.m. Tuesday, ruling Democrat Al Franken should be certified the winner. Coleman emerged from his St. Paul home within hours to concede, pulling the plug on a bitter contest decided by 312 votes out of nearly 2.9 million cast.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Victory in Minnesota's drawn-out Senate race moved within Democrat Al Franken's grasp Saturday when he increased his lead over Republican Norm Coleman as the statewide recount drew to a close. The state Canvassing Board will reconvene Monday to declare which candidate received the most overall votes in the election. Barring court intervention, it will be Franken.
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Republican National Committee Press Office, +1-202-863- 8614
When conducting the recount, the Minnesota Canvassing Board directed county election officials to reexamine absentee ballots that had been rejected for not complying with state law. Yet the trial court allowed the machine total instead of the hand recount total, once again applying a different recount rule in this Democratic precinct than in every other Minnesota precinct What should have happened in this case (and did not) is that the trial court should have ensured that all of the counties in Minnesota uniformly compUed with the state's rules on absentee ballots when conducting the recount The problem of double-counting should have been thoroughly investigated and corrected.
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