Lectures, decisions ... another recount day
December 13, 2008 at 3:55AM
• The state Canvassing Board lectured the Coleman and Franken campaigns about too many ballot challenges (about 4,000).
• The board voted to accept the original machine tally of votes in a Minneapolis precinct where 133 ballots are missing, apparently restoring net 46 votes to Democrat Al Franken.
• The board voted to recommend that counties count absentee ballots mistakenly rejected.
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