Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard women’s volleyball team, the last weekend of the fall proved to be exemplary of the entire season.The Crimson’s final weekend of the 2008 campaign saw a resounding victory in one night juxtaposed with a characteristically hard-fought loss the next day. Harvard (10-16, 5-9 Ivy) crushed Columbia (6-18, 0-14) on Friday in a 3-0 shutout that featured double-digit kills from three different players. Continuing its New York road trip the next day, the Crimson again thrived off of a number of offensive performances, but ultimately fell...
...first of the dueling press conferences, Fritz Knaak, Coleman's head recount attorney, accused Franken's campaign of employing "Florida-like tactics" by seeking the names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected. Reporters then rushed to Franken's headquarters a few miles down the road to hear Franken spokesman Andy Barr say the Coleman campaign was once again resorting to "baseless charges and innuendo...
...issue was a lawsuit Franken filed on Thursday in Ramsey County District Court seeking to obtain the names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected. The Franken campaign hopes to submit the ballots to the State Canvassing Board for consideration; it sued after Ramsey County officials asserted that the data was private. Knaak insisted that by suing, the Franken campaign is violating the privacy of voters. Barr in turn argued the Franken campaign simply wants to ensure that every vote is counted. A judge is expected to issue a ruling on Monday. The Franken campaign believes these ballots, part...
...Saturday the Coleman campaign accused Ritchie, who, like Franken, belongs to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition, of "breaching neutrality" by saying that the State Canvassing Board would probably consider taking up the tossed absentee ballots. Ritchie has vowed to hold regular press conferences during the recount. "The whole world is watching to see if we're living up to our reputation as Minnesota - our brand," Ritchie says. "Accuracy is the only measurement by which we can determine who won this election." Ritchie does not expect the recount to be completed until at least Dec. 19. If the results...
...handle these absentee ballots [which are the subject of the Franken lawsuit]," he says. Mark Jeranek, who voted for Franken, cast an absentee ballot in Beltrami County, located in northwestern Minnesota, that was rejected because he didn't sign the envelope in which he placed his ballot. The Franken campaign sent him an affidavit that he is considering signing. "I don't want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count," the 39-year-old environmental consultant says. "It's kind of neat - at least for a senatorial race - that...