Coleman Lawyer: We’re Finding More Votes!

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Coleman lawyer/spin-man Ben Ginsberg made a stunning announcement at this evening’s press conference: Stearns County now reports that they’ve found seven new ballots.

“That’s another significant development, showing the inaccuracy of the canvassing board total,” Ginsberg said, “and we feel good about the votes that will be coming in.”

This comes after two other pro-Coleman counties, Washington and Anoka, were finding similarly small numbers of missing ballots late last week, events that the Coleman campaign cheered. (Stearns voted 46%-34% for Coleman.)

These ballots could all indeed be legitimately lost and now found. Unfortunately, there’s always room for human error in a recount involving 2.9 million ballots. But think for a second about what the spin would be on Fox News if the roles were reversed — if Franken’s team was currently behind, and boasting about newly-found votes coming in dribs and drabs.

Another interesting part of the trial is how Ginsberg has been crafting his taunts against the Franken campaign.

At two separate pressers today, Ginsberg ridiculed the Franken legal team for having warned last week that Al Franken’s absence from the Senate was endangering the stimulus bill.

At the afternoon press conference, Ginsberg said that despite the dire warnings from the Franken people before the state Supreme Court, “the stimulus passed even without Al Franken being in the Senate today.”

And at the evening presser, Ginsberg boasted that today, “the Democrats proved they can spend trillions without Al Franken.”

(Press conferences c/o The Uptake.)

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