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...Norm has been really upbeat, and he is motivated." BEN GINSBERG, an attorney for Coleman, on his candidate's mood despite a statewide recount in January that put Franken ahead by 225 votes. A Coleman lawsuit over the recount is still pending...
...Cambridge Election Commission will hold a vacancy recount to officially determine Murphy’s replacement...
Winters, who publishes political analysis in the online Cambridge Civic Journal, said he has run the election commission’s software using the 2007 election results, and found that Ward will win the vacancy recount...
Equally important is the fact that Minnesota’s voting machines leave a clean paper trail, which allowed the recount to take place. If, for instance, Georgia’s recent senatorial runoff election resulted in a similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia’s electronic voting machines are paperless—electronic machines typically don’t allow for a hand recount to double check the electronic tally. In contrast, every Minnesota voter marked a paper ballot. This allowed officials to go back and at least try to discern...
Although Coleman’s lawsuit challenging the recount results may be legitimately founded, it exposes the emptiness of his earlier calls for Franken to concede the election. On Nov. 5, Coleman triumphantly declared “Yesterday the voters spoke, We prevailed.” He then cast doubt on whether a recount would be worth the time and tax dollars, going so far as to say he would “step back” if he were in Franken’s position. Coleman’s current lawsuit contesting the election results now reveals the hollowness...