We might all be waiting on a ruling from the Minnesota election court — but even that doesn’t stop the stream of interesting legal filings in this never-ending dispute.
The Star-Tribune reports that the the Franken campaign submitted over the weekend their specific list of rejected absentee ballots to be considered for counting, and it adds up to 430 envelopes — 131 more than the number they’d given during closing arguments. All the ballots were already in evidence, so this is still allowable.
A Franken spokesperson told the the Strib that the campaign is directly asking the court to count the ballots mentioned at closing arguments while these are being put in “for consideration.” What this essentially means, as the Strib points out, is that the Franken camp believes they’ve solidly proven the previous ballots under the court’s strict standards, while the 131 could be a backup plan for just in case the court gives in to the Coleman arguments for using more lenient standards to let in some new votes.
The court’s order on which ballots to count will be a very important step in this process, before we get a final ruling for a winner. Some unknown ballots are going to be admitted in — and just pay attention to which campaign’s list any individual envelope came from, and you’ll have a rough idea of what to expect.
