Rejected absentee votes may decide it (MN senate race)

[HughMoran]

Even as the U.S. Senate race recount forged ahead, both sides are massing their troops in the next battle over piles of disputed ballots.

By PATRICIA LOPEZ and BOB von STERNBERG, Star Tribune

Last update: November 23, 2008 - 1:10 PM

With the U.S. Senate recount still incomplete, attorneys on both sides have already armored up for the next pitched battle: over whether to reexamine thousands of rejected absentee ballots.

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On Wednesday, both sides will face off at a state Canvassing Board hearing that could prove momentous, with discussion and perhaps a ruling on whether rejected absentee ballots are in or out.

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The reasons for rejecting absentee ballots vary. Many voters failed to fill out voter registration cards or to sign the backs of absentee envelopes, as required by law. Those ballots, Downs and others say, could be dispensed with quickly at a review hearing.

But other situations could require careful scrutiny. And the sheer volume of absentee ballots this year has changed the conventional wisdom on what role they could play.

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This is getting more and more interesting :)

[wellstone dem]

1. I think the best bet is the ones rejected because signatures

allegedly do not match. These are lay people making the judgement, not considering whether someone's age or illness affects the signature.