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...Board certified the results of the state's protracted U.S. Senate race on Monday, declaring former comedian and Democratic challenger Al Franken the winner by 225 votes. Franken made an acceptance speech just hours after the board met and the certification put a temporary stamp on the two-month recount. Franken, however, doesn't yet have the election certificate needed to take his seat in Washington, and a lawsuit filed by Coleman threatens to entangle the race in even more months of legal wrangling. (See pictures from the historic Election...
...state law, a candidate has one calendar week to contest the results of a recount to a three-judge panel appointed by the chief justice of the state's supreme court. Coleman, who led the race by 215 votes on Election Day, filed suit the very next day. He declared, in an "equal protections" clause argument, that there had been inconsistencies in the way in which counties tallied absentee ballots that election officials had mistakenly rejected. Moreover, Coleman alleges that 150 ballots were counted twice and that the board incorrectly included 133 ballots that had gone missing at a Minneapolis...
...Coleman's first public appearance here since Election Day - when he asked Franken to refrain from taking the race to a recount but later apologized for the comment - Coleman stood in a room full of supporters in the State Office Building and declared, "While I understand there is a desire by a small number of people to simply move on, something greater than expediency is at stake here ... Sometimes [democracy] is messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the best directive - fairness is." When reporters mentioned the names of Senate majority leader...
...about Coleman's argument that all of those improperly rejected absentee ballots should be counted, Solem, the trucker says, "Well, I guess they should count those. But it'd be nice if they just got this done and over with." Minnesotans, it appears, will just have to endure this recount like another bad winter...
...sensible, civic-minded spirit doesn't guarantee the losing camp won't sue when it's all over. But Minnesota law, which was perfected after a gubernatorial recount in 1962, has a plan in case of a dead tie: a coin flip. The state already did one this year for a school-board seat in Farmington. Ritchie has been looking around for a good coin for the Coleman-Franken race; he says the quarter with Minnesota on the back is the way to go. "I was watching Leatherheads, the football movie, and you realize there are angles on coin-tossing...