NJ, VA-Gov: Poll Update (8/18)

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 10:29 AM PDT

2009/08/18 · 10:29

After three rough weeks of polling for Jon Corzine (D), the tide may be shifting if this week's polls are to be trusted. Creigh Deeds (D) of Virginia however, still appears to be stuck in the sand:

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 · 10:13 AM PDT

2009/07/28 · 10:13

The odd year election cycle of 2009 is fast approaching with two gubernatorial races entering the national scene. New Jersey and Virginia will steal the '09 spotlight, but several large cities will conduct mayoral elections and at least one House Seat will be up for grabs. The depth of public polling is however limited to the two Gubernatorial elections for the moment, and I don't suspect this will change.

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Tuesday June 30, 2009 · 2:09 PM PDT

2009/06/30 · 14:09

The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed the ECC's ruling, which declared Franken the winner, late Tuesday morning. The 32 page order, issued unanimously by the five presiding justices, marked the end of Minnesota's 2008 Senatorial Election. An excerpted summary of the order is presented below followed by Norm Coleman's concession speech:

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Monday June 29, 2009 · 11:28 AM PDT

2009/06/29 · 11:28

The Minnesota Supreme Court is still deliberating on Norm Coleman's latest appeal in the drawn out Senate Election of 2008; but at this point their ruling merely appears to be a legal formality. Even Minnesota's Republican Governor, Tim Pawlenty, has indicated his intent to adhere to the MNSC's ruling by signing the Election Certificate should Al Franken be declared the victor. With a ruling likely to come this week or next, Al Franken seems poised to become the legal victor, and there isn't anything anybody can do about it.

Michael Brodkorb of MinnesotaDemocratsExposed.com does however seem intent on altering the public's perception. On June 8th, just five days before his election as the new Deputy Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, he filed public data practice requests with seven of Minnesota's counties seeking photocopies of rejected absentee ballots.

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Tuesday June 02, 2009 · 2:40 AM PDT

2009/06/02 · 02:40

The Minnesota Supreme Court convened Monday at 9 AM CT for the oral arguments associated with Norm Coleman's election appeal. The proceedings lasted approximately 69 minutes; upon their conclusion, each candidate's representation addressed the media on the second floor of the Minnesota Judicial Building.

The unabridged oral arguments follow as publicly provided by the Minnesota Judicial Branch and Twin Cities Public Television; low bandwidth audio from within the chamber is also available:

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 12:48 AM PDT

2009/04/23 · 00:48

Yesterday the Franken Campaign presented their pre-litigation timeline, and today the Coleman campaign responded:

Appellants agree this is a time-sensitive case that should be resolved as expeditiously as possible, Appellants respectfully submit, however, that the parties, and the Court, must be given enough time to fully develop and consider the issues on appeal. Accordingly, Appellants respectfully request a slight modification to the briefing
schedule proposed by Respondent as follows:

1. Opening brief of Appellants - April 30, 2009;

2. Opposition brief of Respondent - May 11, 2009; and

3. Reply brief - May 15, 2009.

The Court may then schedule oral argument at a time convenient to it.

Dated: April 22, 2009

Source: Appellants' Response to Respondent's Motion for Expedited Schedule via MNCourts.gov [PDF]

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 4:24 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 16:24

The representation of Norm Coleman has filed paper work with the Minnesota Supreme Court appealing the decision of the Election Contest Court. The filings came in the form of three documents, each of which I will highlight below. We'll first cover the Notice of Appeal:

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Sunday April 19, 2009 · 4:51 PM PDT

2009/04/19 · 16:51

A relatively quiet week ensued, after the Election Contest Court's Monday ruling, but a few pertinent if seemingly unrelated events did transpire. I'll cover two events, as reported by the two major Minnesota papers, and present the time frame for Norm Coleman's potential appeal to the MN Supreme Court.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 5:52 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 17:52

The 2008 Minnesota Senate Election officially has a winner, at least according to the Election Contest Tribunal. The three judge ECC issued a 68 page order late Monday declaring Franken the winner. The body of the order is excerpted below:

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Friday April 10, 2009 · 4:38 PM PDT

2009/04/10 · 16:38

On Tuesday, April 7th, the MN Senate Election Contest Court sat down at 9:30 AM CT with 387 absentee ballots and began the tedious process of opening, sorting and counting their contents. The counting process did not began for some time, but when it did, the court had identified 351 ballots which merited inclusion into the vote tally. The ECC court released the following order detailing the specific voters contained within the 351 identified ballots:

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Tuesday April 07, 2009 · 2:29 AM PDT

2009/04/07 · 02:29

Before the court even begins counting tomorrow morning, thirteen ballots will be eliminated from their original request of 400. The Star Tribune is reporting, by way of the Deputy Secretary of State, that 13 of the 400 ballots have already been counted and were erroneously requested due to clerical errors. The relevant portion of the Star Tribune article is excerpted below:

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 7:28 AM PDT

2009/04/06 · 07:28

I wrote an article last Thursday in which I attempted to quantify the Election Contest Court's Tuesday request for 400 currently rejected absentee ballots. While my previous analysis was not technically incorrect, it was however a misrepresentation of the current state of affairs; I entirely neglected to account for the Nauen group of petitioners.

I'll first present the corrected extrapolation:

Extrapolations: ECC Requests by City [Nauen] [PDF, 128KB]

		      Identified       Extrapolation
			Voters	    Coleman	 Franken
ECC Request		     359	150.71	     150.24
    Coleman Regions	  222	     106.47	   76.68
    Franken Regions	  139	      44.24	   73.56

Nauen Petitioners	      41	  2.10	      37.80
    Only Orig. 64	    5		.25	    4.50
    Ordered Counted	   36	       1.80	   32.40

Total		     400	152.76	     187.14

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