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Recount To Begin In Minnesota Governor's Race
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Nov 28, 2010 03:12pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | The Associated Press |
| News Date | Sunday, November 28, 2010 09:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Election officials are keeping the 47-day slog through the ballots in Minnesota's 2008 U.S. Senate race in mind as they prepare for their second statewide recount in as many years, but they're optimistic the recount that starts Monday in the governor's race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer will go more quickly.
Not only do they have the experience of the protracted Al-Franken-Norm Coleman squeaker under their belts, they now have the law on their side. In the wake of the 2008 race, which took six months for the courts to settle, the state changed some election rules to avert the myriad challenges that dragged out the process.
That's why officials like Patty O'Connor, the elections chief in Blue Earth County, are confident things will go more smoothly this time.
In 2008, she recalled, it seemed like both sides tried to challenge as many ballots as possible, and challenges by one campaign led to tit-for-tat counterchallenges. O'Connor doesn't expect a repeat thanks to new rules that make it harder to challenge ballots over stray pen marks and ovals that aren't completely filled in. Other changes established a more uniform process for accepting or rejecting absentee ballots, which was the other big headache in 2008. |
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