Photo: #Dick Jarvis and Rosalie Forkner, both of Northfield, helped recount ballots from a Northfield City Council race.
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Dick Jarvis and Rosalie Forkner, both of Northfield, helped recount ballots from a Northfield City Council race. (MPR Photo/Tim Nelson)

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Campaign 2008

How will the Senate recount work?

Broadcast: Midmorning, 11/18/2008, 9:06 a.m.

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Soon teams of elections officials, in many places surrounded by partisan and nonpartisan observers, will begin the laborious process of hand-counting 2.9 million Minnesota votes in the close election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Minnesota's Secretary of State explains how the process will go.

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  • Mark Ritchie: Minnesota's secretary of state.
  • Michael O'Brien: Reports for The Hill newspaper.

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