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  • Senate recount trial: Judges' ruling is boon to Franken

    04/01/2009 12:37:56 AM PDT · by flattorney · 44 replies · 5,179+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | March 31, 2009 - 11:01 PM | Pat Doyle, Kevin Duchschere
    - - Absentee ballots to be counted will be far fewer than Coleman sought in effort to close the U.S. Senate gap. Abstract: Norm Coleman's lawyers all but conceded defeat Tuesday and promised to appeal after a panel of three judges ordered no more than 400 new absentee ballots opened and counted, far fewer than the Republican had sought to overcome the lead held by DFLer Al Franken. The ballots include many that Franken had identified as wrongly rejected as well as ballots that Coleman wanted opened in his quest to overcome the 225-vote lead that Franken gained after a...