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COLEMAN CAMPAIGN RESPONDS TO “BACK-DOOR EFFORT” BY COUNTY ATTORNEY & TEAM FRANKEN SUPPORTER
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 26, 2008
“Also Tuesday, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman proposed a process for reconsidering rejected absentee ballots that would partly skirt the Canvassing Board: Have local elections officials review such ballots and identify those possibly improperly rejected.
Freeman, a DFLer who backed Franken, said that he and Anoka County Attorney Bob Johnson worked on the plan after Secretary of State Mark Ritchie asked them and other county attorneys for ideas to improve the process.
In a statement, the Coleman campaign said: ‘This is a back-door effort by both the Franken campaign, and Mr. Freeman, to try to gain influence on the eve of the discussions by the Canvassing Board, and there needs to be further explanation for why the Hennepin County Attorney is using his office in such an overtly partisan manner.’” Source: Star Tribune, November 25, 2008
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