Coleman files final brief with state Supreme Court

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Coleman files final brief with state Supreme Court
By Aaron Blake
Posted: 05/15/09 03:30 PM


Former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) legal team on Friday filed the final brief of its effort to get the result of Minnesota’s Senate race overturned in the state Supreme Court.

The case is set for a June 1 hearing. Coleman’s campaign was filing a reply to a brief filed by Democrat Al Franken’s lawyers on Monday.

In Coleman’s reply brief, his lawyers argue that different standards were applied to absentee ballots across the state, violating the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution.

Coleman is seeking to get 4,400 rejected absentee ballots included in the vote count, which currently favors Franken by 312 votes.

The Republican’s legal team makes the case that a February ruling from a lower court imposed a standard on absentee ballots that, if applied to other ballots, would render them many of them invalid.

Coleman’s team wants the case sent back to the lower court with instructions to include more absentee ballots.

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