Woodbury Bulletin - Nonpartisan Groups Launch Observation

While the Franken and Coleman campaigns are planning to staff recount locations with attorneys and volunteers, three election-minded organizations said they will team up to enlist upward of 250 volunteers to monitor the recount. The group said it will be present, possibly at every recount location, to ensure election laws and recount procedures are followed.

“This is about protecting the integrity of the process,” said Mark Halvorson, director of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota.

Halvorson’s organization is joining with state chapters of League of Women Voters and Common Cause, which bills itself as a government watchdog group, to monitor the Senate recount as well as three legislative race recounts. The coalition describes itself as the only nonpartisan observers of the recount.

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