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With just 215 votes separating him from Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, every possible uncounted ballot matters to Al Franken. And so the ruling from the Ramsey County District Court, while small, might well be a critical skirmish that the former comedian can claim as he tries to win the war of attrition that is Minnesota's Senatorial recount. The Democratic Party's ability to overcome filibusters in the Senate may depend on the outcome...
...district court's ruling itself is a half-way measure for Franken. It ordered the state's second largest county to turn over to the Franken campaign information on voters whose absentee ballots had been rejected. Ramsey County rejected roughly 750 of the nearly 13,000 absentee ballots submitted, or 5.7%. That isn't much but considering the small size of Coleman's current lead, it could prove to be an important avenue for Franken to close the gap. Minnesota law allows elections officials to count legally rejected ballots if they can determine voter intent. With voter information in hand...
Ramsey County District Court Judge Dale B. Lindman ruled that the voter information was public data and not private as Ramsey's attorneys had argued. By Wednesday evening the county had turned over the information to the Franken campaign. Ramsey County assistant attorney Darwin Lookingbill confirmed that the county will not appeal the ruling...
...effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that each kindergarten class reflect the demographics of the entire incoming student population—which is determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director of the Cambridge Schools public information office, explained the program?...
...court will hear oral arguments in the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen whom U.S. authorities seized at New York's J.F.K. airport in September 2002 and then sent to Syria, where Arar claims he was tortured before being released without charge. Previously, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed Arar's case, essentially ruling that national security concerns outweighed any claims of civil rights violations...