Minnesota Elections Director Gary Poser is now counting ballots, out of a batch of 351 previously-rejected absentees, with Franken attorney Marc Elias and Coleman attorney Tony Trimble observing. More to come, after he’s done.
Poser has just begun, but the earliest indications are that this pile could go to Al Franken by a healthy margin.
The proceedings can be viewed at The Uptake.
Late Update: Al Franken is currently at over 100 votes, ahead of Coleman in the 60s range. For Norm Coleman to have taken an overall lead of even one vote, he would have had to keep Franken to at most 62 votes here. Thus, Franken’s lead is officially secure in this count, even if every single remaining vote were to go to Coleman.
