Coleman camp asks that election result be 'set aside'

[SemiCharmedQuark]

"For more than a month, Norm Coleman stressed flaws in Minnesota's election system.

And on Monday, Coleman lawyer Jim Langdon wrote the three-judge panel to suggest the problems are so serious they may not be able to declare a winner.

"Some courts have held that when the number of illegal votes exceeds the margin between the candidates -- and it cannot be determined for which candidate those illegal votes were cast -- the most appropriate remedy is to set aside the election," Langdon wrote in a letter to the court.

Coleman's team rested most of his case Monday in the U.S. Senate election trial after more testimony underscoring problems with the election system. Under questioning from the Republican's lawyers, Minnesota's elections director acknowledged inaccurate data in the registration system that could exclude otherwise qualified people from voting.

Now Al Franken's team will try to convince judges that things aren't so bad after all.

Franken lawyer Marc Elias said the team will begin a case today that will include evidence "about the good job that the state of Minnesota did ... that the hardworking auditors and election night officials did. How the system worked, by and large."


http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/40556467.html

[BlueIdaho]

1. So much for counting all the votes and letting the voters decide - huh? nt.

[waiting for hope]

2. Coleman is a freakin cry baby -

Remember how he was screaming for Franken to concede after the first go round? He needs to go and I would hope that the citizens of Minnesota have had enough of him.

[bdamomma]

3. oh jeez, the repigs are such sore losers.

Senator Franken should be seated. Enough.

[WI_DEM]

4. Give it up, Norm.

[napi21]

5. Obviously he want's a revote! That won't work! For one main reason, Mn.

simply can't afford it!

[RoccoR5955]

6. Maybe Coleman should be "set aside." n/t

[Bozita]

7. Cheney would say Coleman's candidacy is in its death throes.

Hey, how about best of three?

[wackywaggin]

8. From Minnesota

People here are getting sick and tired of Colemann and his legal game playing with our represenbtation in the US senate. I wonder if the forefathers meant for one person to have the ability he withhold the representation of the people of a whole state? I doubt it!! :mad:

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Norm Loserman!

Sore Colemanman!