Challenges ballots and frivolous: take a look

At the Star Tribune website citizens can check out copies of ballots that were challenged by GOP recount volunteers and deemed frivolous by election officials, and make their own decisions, much as the State Canvassing Board will do next week.

I couldn't find one that wasn't pretty darn clear that they all were intending to vote for Dayton.

There are nine ballot examples at the above link.

Apparently, copies of these ballots are not available to the press and the general public unless you get them from the campaigns, who are allowed to make copies.

That's apparently where the StarTribune got them. We asked for local challenged ballots, and that's what we were told. We'd have to get them from the campaigns. We might have to work on that access issue in the future.

Apparently, the news media is also not privy to the number of challenged votes until, I presume, the canvassing board looks at them, but the Dayton campaign told the Strib that Emmer campaign has challenged 2,700 ballots and 98 percent of them have been deemed frivolous.

They told the Strib 39 Dayton campaign challenges were frivolous.