Most of the issues are familiar, and either the Canvassing Board or the Supreme Court has already considered them. Take the 133 missing Minneapolis ballots that the Canvassing Board decided to count. This is one where the Canvassing Board actually took evidence, received an opinion from the attorney general, consulted the law books and allowed the two campaigns to make arguments. Four of the five canvassers are judges. The decision was unanimous. What are the odds the next judges who consider the same matter will see it differently? (And if they do, bear in mind, it won’t lop 133 ballots off Franken’s margin, only 46, which was Coleman’s net advantage from that batch of ballots, as counted on Election Night before they went missing.)
MinnPost’s Eric Black goes through Team Coleman’s court filing and breaks down Coleman’s chances. If Coleman even wins some of his arguments, it’s close to impossible he will gain a lead. In fact, it is possible that if Coleman wins some of his arguments it will actually increase Franken’s margin. From the piece:
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