At a brief press conference with reporters just now, held after the Minnesota election court proceedings ended for the day, Norm Coleman expressed his pride in the witnesses his legal team had called, regular voters whose absentee ballots haven’t been counted yet.
Now remember, their witness roster included a guy who admitted to obtaining his absentee ballot through forgery by his girlfriend, and is demanding that his vote be counted.
“You know there’s been so much discussion about process, but today we saw the human side of this, and that’s what this is really about,” said Coleman. He added a bit later: “For me it was heartwarming to be here to see Minnesotans come forward and be so passionate, so passionate, about the right to vote and be counted.”
To be sure, some of the witnesses were sympathetic — such as Gerald Anderson, a 75-year old who has gone legally blind and who believes his signature on his ballot envelope didn’t match the one on his ballot application because of his lost vision. But come on, they really called the forgery guy?
(Special thanks to The Uptake for carrying the presser.)
