Norm Coleman

Rachel E. Stassen-Berger St. Paul Pioneer Press If you lived in Carver County last year and you cast an absentee ballot, county officials checked to make sure your ballot's witness was a registered voter, the county elections manager testified Tuesday in Minnesota's Senate election trial...

Pat Doyle Minneapolis Star Tribune When it comes to reviewing rejected absentee ballots, sometimes there's more than first meets the eye. ...

Pat Doyle Star Tribune Norm Coleman's lawyers want judges in the U.S. Senate election trial to reverse their recent ruling and consider counting rejected absentee ballots similar to others that previously were tallied...

Patrick Condon Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Peter DeMuth put his initials on his absentee ballot application, but he signed his full name on the ballot envelope. In Minnesota, that was enough to get his vote for Republican Norm Coleman thrown out. ...

Emily Cadei Congressional Quarterly A three-judge panel in Minnesota has reduced the number of disputed ballots that will determine who won the state’s 2008 Senate race. ...

Emily Cadei CQ In an effort to accelerate Minnesota’s Senate election trial, the judges held a hearing Thursday to discuss the parameters for rejecting absentee ballots, a pivotal issue in the case to determine a winner in the 2008 race. ...

St. Paul Pioneer Press This searchable database includes the list of more than 4,700 rejected absentee ballots Republican Norm Coleman wants considered for possible inclusion in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race...

Tom Crann Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — Republican Norm Coleman says he's confident that the issues he has raised in the court challenge of the U.S. Senate recount will be addressed to his satisfaction. ...

Jason Hoppin St. Paul Pioneer Press Perry Mason, meet Rachel Smith. ...

Emily Cadei Congressional Quarterly Counting every vote sounds like a simple enough proposition, but questions over the proper methods for doing so have dominated the first week of the trial to determine Minnesota’s next senator. ...

Brad Swenson Bemidji Pioneer The list of rejected absentee ballots that Norm Coleman wants a three-judge panel to count include 24 Beltrami County voters. ...

Pat Doyle Minneapolis Star Tribune Confusion over election rules and the crush of Election Day business caused local officials to mistakenly disqualify numerous ballots that remain uncounted to this day, an elections expert testified Friday in the trial over Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount...