The State Canvassing Board has confirmed the vote totals and the recount officially starts on Monday.
No word yet on whether the Board denied Emmer's request.
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Emmer will ask the State Canvasing Board to do...
Posted by Jeff Labels: 2010 Elections, GOP, Governor, RecountExactly what the Minnesota Supreme Court refused to do.
FROM MPR
Now, attorneys for Republican Tom Emmer are expected to ask the five member State Canvassing Board to do what the Supreme Court didn't -- require local
elections officials to match up the number of ballots cast with the number of voters who signed in on Election Day.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Canvasing Board will decline Mr. Emmer's request as well, call it hunch.
It appears as if the GOP is on a delaying tactic at this moment.
In a very quick decision the Minnesota Supreme Court refused to intervene on Tom Emmer and the GOP behalf on the grounds of "over votes". A full decision will be released at a later date.
From MPR
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled late this afternoon that it would not intervene the likely recount of the votes in the state's still-undecided governor's race. Republican Tom Emmer had asked the court to force county elections officials to reconcile the number of ballots cast on November second with the signatures of people as they signed in to vote. The court heard arguments on the issue earlier this afternoon and issued its decision denying Emmer's petition just a few minutes ago.
Hennepin County Response to Emmer's Request
Posted by Jeff Labels: 2010 Elections, Governor, RecountRead the MPR report here
Before the details are released it appears teh GOP is suing to get "excess" ballots removed from precincts where more ballots were cast then people registered.
More Details to follow
From Minnesota Public Radio
Republican Tom Emmer will have a hard time finding enough votes to overcome Democrat Mark Dayton's lead in the governor's race, recount attorneys and election law experts said Thursday.
Emmer trails Dayton by 8,774 votes, but there would have to be widespread, systematic errors for Emmer to overcome the deficit either during the certification process or a recount, said Guy Charles, a law professor at Duke University.
MN Public Radio
Before the GOP gets to far ahead of itself it going to need to wait for the Certified total. Considering those totals and the preliminary totals change by roughly 2 to 3 thousand on average, a net gain of 1450 by Dayton will put the total outside of the .5 % range and require teh GOP to pay for the Recount.
At least we have something to talk about.
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