Published 12/29/2008
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From NBC’s Abby Livingston The Coleman camp is now asking for a review of an additional 654 absentee ballots they think have been wrongfully rejected. This number is separate from the 1,346 ballots local officials previously determined as wrongfully rejected.
Of those 1,346, the Coleman camp believes that just 750 were wrongfully rejected, including some Franken ballots.
The Coleman campaign is also holding out hope for their duplicate ballot-counting complaint. Tony Trimble, a Coleman attorney, predicted that if such an examination were to take place Coleman would lose only 10 to 12 votes, while Franken would lose 110 to 120 votes, and in effect, the unofficial lead, which the Franken camp claims is 46 votes.
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