This week, as the trial starts in Norm Coleman’s lawsuit to overturn the election in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, we wanted to make sure you had the latest information concerning the contest.

The Coleman camp, while claiming their lawsuit is about counting every vote, is really asking the Court to disenfranchise Minnesotans left and right. Specifically, they are asking the three judge panel to:

• throw out 133 properly-cast ballots from Minneapolis Ward Three Precinct One (many of them from University of Minnesota students)
• throw out hundreds of ballots under a purely speculative theory of double counting (despite offering no evidence)
• and throw out untold scores of ballots without election judge initials on the back.

We are not fooled by their claims to the press that they want to count votes when the guts of their legal argument is to throw many of them out.

In fact, the ultimate irony of their case is that in trying to discard the validly cast votes, they’re looking to include invalid ones.

The Coleman campaign says they want every vote to be counted – the truth is hundreds of Minnesotans worked tirelessly and meticulously to make sure they were. And a bipartisan State Canvassing board above reproach was the final arbiter.

As for the Coleman attack video released earlier this week, we believe the campaign was over and that Norm Coleman had promised months ago to cease any additional attack ads. It is one thing for them to attack Al Franken and his campaign, but it is entirely different matter to attack the citizens of Minnesota and the hundreds who worked tirelessly on the most careful recount in the history of the country.

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