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Franken's campaign asked for those ballots to be tallied by each county and counted in the recount results, while Coleman's campaign said the canvassing board did not have the authority to deal with the ballots. On December 8, some counties began sorting rejected absentee ballots to find out how many were incorrectly rejected. [86]
The initial results of the recount put Franken ahead by 225 votes out of almost 2.9 million votes cast. [19] On December 24, 2008, Coleman's lawyers said it was a "virtual certainty" that he would contest the results of the election. [20] Coleman's term expired on January 3, 2009. [21]
On January 3, 2009, with the recount apparently completed, Franken had an unofficial lead of 225 votes, but former senator Coleman's attorneys contested the official results in the courts. [90] During the recount process, Minnesota was represented by only one senator, Amy Klobuchar .
Franken challenged incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman in 2008. When the initial count was completed on November 18, Franken was trailing Coleman by 215 votes. [1] [2] This close margin triggered a mandatory recount.
Democrat Stevenson’s razor-thin margin of victory over Jim Coleman, a Republican, was relatively unchanged following a recount in Fayette and Scott counties.
Incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman was challenged by radio host and comedian DFLer Al Franken and former Independence Senator Dean Barkley. The race was close, requiring a recount followed by several legal challenges that would prevent a winner from being seated until July 2009.
After certifying the countywide results of the Nov. 8 election last Friday, the county election commission began a recount in the three school districts Monday that took until late Wednesday to ...
The commission's two Democratic members voted against rejecting the recount results, which changed just one vote in each of the two races. The board had previously voted to certify the other races ...