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Previous FlA comment: - - On Franken's submitted ballot challenges, the Board ruled for Coleman 3.7 to 1. Now the Board must review Coleman's submitted ballot challenges which are twice what Franken submitted. Soros Puppet SOS Ritchie complained that there were too many ballot challenges that the Board must review. The former? Communist Party member doesn't like it that Coleman is increasing his lead. If Ritchie and the CB had not changed the rules, so Franken could "mine" rejected County election boards ballots, this election would be over and Coleman certified the winner. MN Supreme Court Justice Lori Gildea remarks regarding SOS Ritchie's office were spot on. The rules are decided and published before the ballots are counted or rejected, not after. The facts are that Norm Coleman has won the official original election count, the official recount, and now the official ballots challenges from Al Franken. Coleman 3 – SorosBoy Franken 0. ~ FlA

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LEGAL ISSUE 3: Judge considers Franken's lawsuit against Olmsted County
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
by Heather J. Carlson
12/17/2008 10:40:01 p.m.

U.S. Sen. candidate Al Franken has sued Olmsted County over 27 rejected absentee ballots he argued should be counted because they were originally accepted. Election officials are awaiting a decision from Winona District Court Judge Nancy Bostrack, who took the case under advisement after listening to arguments Tuesday during a court hearing. This comes as election officials statewide are awaiting the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision in a case brought by Franken's opponent, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The Republican is trying to block counties from counting improperly rejected absentee ballots. An estimated 1,600 absentee ballots statewide are at stake. In Olmsted County, election officials say 50 absentee ballots were improperly rejected.

The Franken campaign contends that 27 absentee ballots in Olmsted County simply ended up in the wrong pile. "These (absentee ballots) were all marked accepted, but then placed in the reject pile. They were misplaced," said Colleen Murray, a Franken campaign spokeswoman. But Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem said the county has concluded that only 13 of those 27 ballots should not have been rejected. They are among the county's 50 improperly rejected ballots. Ostrem said the remaining 14 ballots were rejected for legitimate legal reasons.

"One of the ballots was for the primary election. It wasn't even for the general election, so it can't be counted," Ostrem said. The Olmsted County Canvassing Board had been scheduled to meet Tuesday to count the improperly rejected ballots. But that meeting was canceled after the Minnesota Supreme Court advised counties to delay counting these ballots following the Coleman campaign's petition.

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On Wednesday, Norm Coleman's lawyers said they believe, in some cases, both duplicate and original ballots were counted during the recount... Coleman filed a petition to block the counting of absentee ballots that were improperly rejected on Election Day... A lawsuit by whichever campaign is not happy with the ruling could come soon after that.

In the second example, if Coleman wins the thing, it seems as though Franken would only try a lawsuit if he A) wanted to muddy the waters and continue to steal the election, or B) if the number of rejected absentee ballots were enough to tip the election his way. Are they? Thanks!