Looks like the Minnesota Court FINALLY ruled.... We'll know April 7...

[rateyes]

Will open up 400 ballots on April 6, and count them April 7. Looks like the ballots are a compilation of some votes that each side wanted counted.

Can you say, Senator Franken?

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/42221767.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ


Court to count up to 400 ballots in Senate recount trial
The absentee ballots are far fewer than Norm Coleman sought and appear to include many that Al Franken had identified as wrongly rejected.

By PAT DOYLE, Star Tribune


In a potentially decisive ruling, a panel of three judges today ordered up to 400 new absentee ballots opened and counted, far fewer than Republican Norm Coleman had sought in his effort to overcome a lead by DFLer Al Franken.

The ballots also appear to include many that Franken had identified as wrongly rejected as well as ballots that Coleman wanted opened.


(More at link)

[Junkdrawer]

1. The Governor has promised to withhold a certificate until the appeals process...

is resolved, and Coleman is promising appeals - year after year of appeals...

Franken in 2013 - maybe...

[dysfunctional press]

2. once the minnesota supreme court rules- pawlenty is beholden to it's decision.

they are the law of the land in minnesota- and that's as far as his domain extends.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Once the Florida Supreme Court has ruled, Katherine Harris is beholden....

Remember, we're talking a Republican wanting to stop a Democrat here...

[dysfunctional press]

4. the minnesota supreme court can compel him to issue a certificate.

i doubt that tim would risk jail-time over normie.

[rvablue]

5. He's also a Republican mulling a run for the White House. While obstructing this might

excite the dead-enders, it would not go over well with the general public.

[Winterblues]

6. What is the purpose of waiting another week to find out?

I think they just want to drag this thing out for their own, either amusement, or somehow, gain. If the votes need to be counted, then count the damn things and get this thing over and done with.

[dysfunctional press]

7. 400 ballots probably requires a full day or more...

time has to be allotted and scheduled, the concerned parties/reps gotten together...less important issues would probably take a lot longer.

[Winterblues]

8. They were able to count four million overnight yet four hundred takes a whole day?

I don't buy it...There is no excuse for this delay..

[dysfunctional press]

10. they are absentee ballots that have to be hand-counted...

when they count "four million overnight" it's done by machines that have been doing the tabulating all day while people have been voting.

relax.

[Mister Ed]

9. It's because the ballots have to be gathered from precincts all over the state...

...and transported, under appropriate supervision, to the capital in St. Paul for counting.

[dysfunctional press]

11. i had assumed that the contested ballots would have already been in the posession of the court...

that's not the case? :shrug:

[scarletwoman]

12. Nope. All the precincts were ordered to secure their ballots. The ballots will have to be

physically transported to the court.

[MiniMe]

13. Coleman's lawyers have already announced an appeal

to the MN State Supreme Court. There aren't enought ballots that are being counted to overturn the election. With only 400 being counted, Normie would haved to win 80% of the ballots to overtake Franken. Highly unlikely.