Minn. court rejects Franken bid to be certified Senate winner

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The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Democrat Al Franken's petition to be certified the winner of the November election for Senate. Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes. The justices said that a certificate cannot be issued until state courts "have finally decided an election contest," and that states aren't required to issue such certificates by the date that Congress convenes.

Here's that opinion (pdf).

In a separate decision (pdf), the court gave Coleman a split decision over absentee ballots that were rejected. He filed suit to challenge absentee ballots that were invalidated without being counted, and the trial is continuing.

The Minnesota justices ruled that a rejected absentee ballot return envelope was not an error in "the counting or recording of the votes" and could not be corrected by a county canvassing board. But if the candidates and local election officials can agree that a return envelope was rejected in error, the absentee ballot could be counted.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has been following the legal battle to declare a winner.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...court-reje.html

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Are these 2 still going at it?

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Are these 2 still going at it?

Yep.