Coleman Vote-Gaining Maneuver Only Helps Franken Expand Lead

Coleman Vote-Gaining Maneuver Only Helps Franken Expand Lead

Here is an astoundingly funny blooper from today's Minnesota state canvass board meeting: The Coleman campaign tried out an interesting maneuver on ballot challenges in an attempt to regain some lost ground against Al Franken -- and then they only ended up losing more ground.

As we reported on Tuesday, the Coleman campaign asked to be able to reinstate some of the ballot challenges that they'd previously withdrawn before these meetings had begun. Basically, they wanted to use the benefit of now knowing what the board members' standards and precedents were on figuring out how to count the disputed ballots, and then apply that knowledge to some challenges they'd previously thought wouldn't work.

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