Franken-Coleman Update, 01/20/09: He Wants Us To Do WHAT?!

Okay, at this point I think Norm and his Hundred-Lawyer Horde must be doing this just to see how far we can spit our beverages across the room.   His people now say that they want the three-judge panel to review all 12,000 rejected absentee ballots — ballots that have already been reviewed and rejected not once but twice:

Norm Coleman’s lawyers said today they might ask a three-judge panel to open every absentee ballot that was rejected in Minnesota’s contested Senate election. That would be about 12,000 ballots, or nearly 10 times the 1,350 that the state Canvassing Board examined during a recount that left Al Franken with a 225-vote lead.

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Compared with Franken’s forces, the lawyers in Coleman’s camp are late converts to the belief that a plenitude of rejected absentee ballots in Minnesota’s Senate election need to be reviewed. Yet their new-found ardor is arguably twice as strong as their rivals’ — they want the court to review ballots that election officials have by now twice rejected…

I can just see the looks on the judges’ faces when they first heard about this. "He wants us to do WHAT?!"

Really, it’s insane, truly insane. Unless your goal is to get the judges so angry with you that they do something stupid, which you’d then use as grounds to appeal your case to the Minnesota Supreme Court.