Coleman’s Latest Vote-Count Setback Could Be Fodder for Appeal

[babsbunny]

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003055450

By Emily Cadei, CQ Staff

Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman was dealt another setback Wednesday in his legal efforts to overturn a state-certified recount in his 2008 U.S. Senate contest, which shows him losing his re-election bid to Democratic challenger Al Franken by 225 votes.

The ruling on an absentee ballot-counting issue by a three-judge Minnesota court panel — which is presiding over the dispute that has delayed a final result in an election held almost four months ago — could give Coleman material for a future appeal to the federal courts.

The court unanimously denied Coleman’s request, made Monday, asking the court to reconsider an order it issued last week involving absentee ballots that had been rejected for technical reasons. The order eliminated at least 13 of 19 categories of rejected absentee ballots from consideration in the trial.

[AlinPA]

1. From here, it looks like that mess will never be settled. Coleman will just keep

appealing and appealing. He seems to be in it for the long haul- years.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Coleman will demand an appeal because the election happened when it was cold outside. n/t

[4lbs]

3. I wouldn't be surprised if Coleman's lawyer tried to argue that he wasn't fully represented and thus

the election be declared invalid.

Not fully represented you say?

Well, the GOP would vote for Coleman. Some GOP voters stayed home. Not all of them had gone to vote for him. Ergo, he wasn't fully represented because the vote count didn't have every GOP registrant voting!

:crazy:

[SoFlaJet]

4. Tim Pawlenty on Hardball said

it could go on into the summer-nuthin' like being there for the people there guv

[ThomWV]

5. The Court has to bring this to an end. Then the Governor must act immediately to certify Franken.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. If not, then Gov Pawlenty needs to be indicted and kicked out of Minn and into prison

for the rest of his natural life.