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Mining the Minnesota Recount

Posted on January 28, 2009 , Updated on April 16, 2009

Republican incumbent Norm Coleman headed into the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount leading Democratic challenger Al Franken by more than 200 votes. But on Jan. 5, the state Canvassing Board certified recount results showing Franken received 225 more votes than Coleman in the general election, out of nearly 2.9 million votes …
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2008 Voter Turnout

Posted on January 8, 2009

Q: Is it true that 36 percent to 37 percent of eligible voters failed to vote in the recent presidential election? A:Actually, the number is slightly higher than that: 38.4 percent of eligible voters didn’t cast a ballot for president in 2008. Even more — 39.9 percent — didn’t vote …
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