At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence.
As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected absentee ballot envelope, one of which he said was the unaltered original, and the other taken from Coleman’s legal filings in his attempts to get more of the rejected ballots opened. The Coleman copy was missing the section in which a local election official explained why it was rejected.
“We would not be able to stipulate to the authenticity of a document where the key portion has been cut out,” Hamilton complained.
Coleman attorney James Langdon expressed his absolute surprise. “What he has pointed out is news to me,” said Langdon. “There has been no effort on our part to be anything other than absolutely truthful.”
Langdon speculated that there may have been a photocopying problem.
The court took no action on this for now, instead asking the parties to first try to work out any differences on evidence between themselves.
