John Nichols, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. February 17, 2009. Republican senators are pouring money into the dead-end recount fight of former Senate Norm Coleman.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 22, 2009. Coleman is making preparations for life after office, having signed up as a paid adviser to the Republican Jewish Coalition earlier this week.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 21, 2009. Al Franken, has been declared the winner of the Minnesota contest but has yet to be sworn in as court battles continue.
Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 10, 2009. Will Norm be able to take this all the way to the conservative-controlled US Supreme Court?
Sam Stein, Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. January 6, 2009. Fallout from the surreal political scandal in Illinois has now wafted into Minnesota.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 5, 2009. "Today, the Supreme Court once again affirmed the validity of the rules under which this recount was conducted."
tremayne, Open Left AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 3, 2009. Norm Coleman's lawyers tried to stop the counting of hundreds of wrongly rejected absentee ballots and now we know they had good reason.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 29, 2008. Could Franken be seated before his victory is certified? The state's other senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, is working on it.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Election 2008. December 25, 2008. "Looks like it's gonna be Sen. Franken. Not a 100% yet. But the state Supreme Court just put the kibosh on Coleman's last credible legal angle."
Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2008. The Republican National Lawyer Association has put out a red-alert dollar beg to the Republican Party faithful to pay for Coleman's team law expenses.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 18, 2008. As of 8PM ET, the Minneapolis Star Tribune projected that Franken would finish the recount process with a lead of 89 votes.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. December 18, 2008. Coleman's lawyers aren't using the Fiasco in Florida as a disaster to avoid, they're using it as a template for their current arguments.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 10, 2008. A Twin Cities paper reports that a probe has been launched into Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman's ties to businessman Nasser Kazeminy.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. December 5, 2008. The good news is, the statewide recount of the unresolved Senate race in Minnesota ended this afternoon.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. December 3, 2008. The Republican incumbent now leads by 50 votes -- and that's before these 171 uncounted ballots.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 2, 2008. "I'm very confident that Franken is going to win," said the Democratic challenger's lawyer Marc Elias.
Jay Walljasper, OnTheCommons.org. November 26, 2008. Mark Ritchie -- the man in the middle of Minnesota's Senate race recount -- is passionate about making sure every vote counts.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Election 2008. November 25, 2008. "In an election this close, these discrepancies should be cause for serious concern to every Minnesota voter."
