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In Senate recount, wrongly rejected votes seem more numerous than first thought
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| Contributor | karin1492 |
| Last Edited | karin1492 Dec 11, 2008 10:04pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - St. Paul Pioneer Press |
| News Date | Friday, December 12, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | At least 358 Minnesotans did everything right on their absentee ballots — they sent them in on time, signed them where they should have and were properly registered — but their votes were not counted.
Those voters live in just 12 of the state's 87 counties and their ranks will undoubtedly grow. Counties and the state have just begun figuring out how many mistakenly or improperly rejected absentee ballots there are.
The fate of those ballots is hotly contested but unclear.
On Friday, the state canvassing board, made up of four judges and the secretary of state, will decide whether to count the votes on those ballots that election judges mistakenly didn't count on Election Day.
The vote gap between Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken is so thin that including those votes in the recount could tip the election.
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