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In terms of an update on the MN Senate race between Coleman and Franken, the Coleman appeal is now stuck in the MN Senate, with the Coleman last chance of appeal resting on 11,000 uncounted absentee votes rejected for various MN law reasons.
Coleman wants all counted, there is a possible compromise where only some will be counted, or the MN Senate could simply decide to count none of them, in which case Franken would win, barring any Coleman appeal to the Federal Courts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...ota_senate_bush_v_gore
And most of the Coleman case is based on precedents dating from the 2000 case of Bush V. Gore that ruled all counties in the State must use exactly the same standards
in terms of counting votes.
Where such a Coleman appeal could start is one question, and the other is, will SCOTUS even touch such a case when the odds of any appeal to SCOTUS making the cut is less than 1%. And since Obama may soon get to make some SCOTUS appointments if some members who have been holding off stepping down until GWB was out of office, the twin jokers become what the make up of SCOTUS is if they agree to accept the Coleman appeal and what the make up is when they finally hear the case.
But with the MN Senate likely to finish their deciding as early as next week, will Coleman go for some non-appeal able compromise gamble, or will they continue to leave MN without a second Senator for a possible another year or so?
Coleman wants all counted, there is a possible compromise where only some will be counted, or the MN Senate could simply decide to count none of them, in which case Franken would win, barring any Coleman appeal to the Federal Courts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...ota_senate_bush_v_gore
And most of the Coleman case is based on precedents dating from the 2000 case of Bush V. Gore that ruled all counties in the State must use exactly the same standards
in terms of counting votes.
Where such a Coleman appeal could start is one question, and the other is, will SCOTUS even touch such a case when the odds of any appeal to SCOTUS making the cut is less than 1%. And since Obama may soon get to make some SCOTUS appointments if some members who have been holding off stepping down until GWB was out of office, the twin jokers become what the make up of SCOTUS is if they agree to accept the Coleman appeal and what the make up is when they finally hear the case.
But with the MN Senate likely to finish their deciding as early as next week, will Coleman go for some non-appeal able compromise gamble, or will they continue to leave MN without a second Senator for a possible another year or so?
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