Minnesota Supreme Court Rules Against Coleman

By Michael Falcone
NYT

Closing another door on Norm Coleman’s bid to wrest the lead in the Minnesota Senate recount from Al Franken, the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Coleman campaign’s petition to count several hundred additional absentee ballots.

After this weekend’s tally of mistakenly rejected absentee ballots, Mr. Franken, the Democrat, was holding on to a 225-vote lead. And now that the Supreme Court has declined the Mr. Coleman’s appeal to consider 654 more ballots, the State Canvassing Board could certify the results of the recount as early as today.

But even the election panel’s stamp of approval is unlikely to bring an end to the contest. A lawyer for the Coleman campaign, Fritz Knaak, issued a statement today calling the court’s ruling “disappointing and disheartening” and vowed to challenge the outcome of the recount.

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