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Franken camp finds 6,400 uncounted absentee ballots
Submitted by Ginny on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 8:32am
11/25/2008 @ 2:56 pm
Nick Juliano
http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=13068
With the recount in the razor-thin Minnesota U.S. Senate race continuing into its second week, Democratic candidate Al Franken's campaign says it has uncovered 6,400 rejected absentee ballots and will ask a state board to count at least some of those votes.
Campaign attorney Marc Elias said Tuesday that the campaign received the rejected ballots from 66 of the state's 87 counties, according to the Associated Press. In some instances, clerical errors or oversight caused the ballot to be improperly rejected.
Franken is running to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Elections officials have recounted nearly 80 percent of the more than 2 million ballots cast in the Senate race.
Coleman's lead has shrunk since election day but still stands at 211 votes, according to figures compiled by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Franken's campaign, meanwhile, estimates the lead is less than half that and says their candidate is just 84 votes behind.
Each campaign is challenging more than 1,500 votes each, not counting any of the just-discovered absentee ballots Franken plans to ask to have included.
Franken's campaign also says several dozen ballots have gone missing.
The state canvassing board will convene next month to rule whether to count the disputed ballots. Its verdicts on the 3,000-plus ballots at issue likely will decide the election.
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