Coleman - absentee ballots are a long shot

Basically what it comes down to is that Coleman is looking to overturn the
slim lead by Franken by introducing ballots that come from skewed areas. He doesn't want to consider that there are ballots from Franken leading areas that were miscounted or wrongly rejected.


"If the 4,739 ballots Coleman wants the court to consider, 3,015 come from areas that voted for him over Franken in the Nov. 4 election. About a third of the ballots are from areas that gave Coleman more than 55 percent of their votes.

Carver County, which gave Coleman nearly 67 percent of the vote and a more lopsided victory than any other county, contributed 370 of those ballots.

Even in Hennepin County, whose already tabulated votes went nearly 60 percent to Franken, most of the absentee ballots Coleman wants reconsidered come from cities that voted for the Republican.

There are 1,385 Hennepin County ballots on Coleman's list. Just 38 percent of those, or 529 ballots, came from places that preferred Franken to Coleman. Democratic Minneapolis, the state's largest city, contributed 217 ballots to the list.

Most of the Hennepin County ballots on the list, 856 of them, come from Republican-leaning areas within the Democratic county. Plymouth, Maple Grove and Eden Prairie, all of which went for Coleman by greater than 55 percent among all counted ballots, contributed 335 ballots to Coleman's list." - Pioneer Press

I believe this is another clue that Franken will win this battle. Coleman's attempts at overturning the results are looking a bit desperate. His attempts also look more and more transparent. His motives are obvious and hopefully the judge panel sees through this attempt.