Word: andersens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican draws up his chair to a gleaming cherry wood desk upstairs. Thick maroon carpeting cushions his steps, velvet window draperies smother uncouth sounds, gold leaf gilds the ceiling, a $50,000 painting graces the anteroom. His receptionist answers the phone, saying "Governor Andersen's office." But it does not make the Republican feel any better...
...four months, Incumbent Republican Elmer L. Andersen has continued to use the Governor's office in the Minnesota capitol, while Democrat Karl Rolvaag has squatted patiently downstairs. They have been waiting to see who won the election. Last week a three-judge tribunal ruled that Rolvaag led Andersen by 78 votes (out of 1,329,302 cast in November). About all that remains for Andersen's hopes is the possibility of a last-ditch appeal to the State Supreme Court. Said a Rolvaag aide: "It would seem very unlikely Andersen can recover...
...recount for Minnesota's governorship was at last complete-but the winner's circle was still too crowded. Republicans claimed that Incumbent Elmer L. Andersen had been re-elected by 102 votes; Democrats insisted that Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag...
Particularly at issue were 358 ballots that had been marked not only for Andersen or Rolvaag, but also for one William Braatz, gubernatorial candidate of Minnesota's Industrial Government Party. If these were included in the major candidates' totals, Rolvaag would be the winner; if they were thrown out, Andersen would stay in office...
...contested ballots are to be submitted to a panel of three district court judges; whatever the panel decides, the loser is almost certain to take the issue to the state Supreme Court. Until it reaches a decision, Elmer Andersen remains Governor-on about as precarious a political perch as ever existed anywhere...