MN-Sen: Coleman Reverses, Again: America Stunned

by Arjun Jaikumar aka brownsox
DailyKos
Fri Feb 20, 2009

The Norm Coleman self-parody continues, and Clayface Coleman's latest contortions are particularly impressive. The former Senator would now have you believe that the courts should eliminate a pool of ballots which Coleman previously claimed were legal.

Of course, the Coleman camp has maintained that just about every controversial ballot was legal at one point, and illegal at another, so this is really little surprise.

A review of the back-story is necessary. You might remember that the campaigns agreed during a statewide review of rejected absentee ballots that a group of 933 ballots were in fact legal and should be counted. Those ballots were counted on January 3, and they gave Al Franken a net gain of 176 votes. The Coleman campaign then started crying foul that some of these votes were really illegal and had to be thrown out.

When those votes were counted, numbers were affixed to the ballot envelopes and the ballots themselves, a just-in-case measure for if they would have to be thrown out again later on. Coleman later dropped this claim, and the election court's order to formalize this also commanded the Secretary of State's office to erase those numbers, in order to protect the secret ballot.

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