Minn.'s fight over rejected absentees

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Carrie Dann The next step in the Minnesota Senate race recount is to count the rejected absentee ballots -- estimated to number between 1,000 and 1,600. Democratic challenger Al Franken 's campaign wants to count 1,346 rejected ballots, but incumbent Republican Norm Coleman ’s campaign wants to count just 136 of them.  Counties and the campaigns must and agree on the number of what they believe are the mistakenly rejected absentee ballots, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled last week. The Coleman campaign had tried to prevent the ballots from being counted at all. The agreed upon number of ballot have to be sent to the secretary of state’s office by Jan. 2nd, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune , and the secretary of state’s office then has until Jan. 4th to count them and send them to the state Canvassing Board to be included in the vote total. ...( read more ) (link)