The Minnesota Senate recount campaign has firmly entered its legal stages, with Al Franken’s chief counsel sending a lengthy and sharply argued memorandum to the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday making the case for counting a group of contested absentee ballots.
The newsworthy thrust of David Lillehaug’s 39-page brief for Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was the direct highlighting of 62 individual cases where voters were either “erroneously rejected by election officials for not being registered,” or their absentee ballots were wrongfully rejected.
Around the same time that this memo was made public, local reports emerged that put the number of potentially wrongfully rejected absentee ballots at approximately 2,000 — far greater than the 500 to 1,000 range that has been previously cited.
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