Ramsey County Judge Dale Lindman ruled that Al Franken’s campaign can gain access to information on voters whose ballots were rejected. This morning Lindman heard nearly an hour of arguments over the issue, and this afternoon he ordered Ramsey County election officials to hand over the data by the close of business Wednesday. (Read his order [pdf].)

“With each passing hour, the Franken campaign is irreparably harmed in its efforts to ensure that each valid vote is properly counted and to prepare for the procedures that will decide this election,” Lindman wrote in his order, which applies only to Ramsey County. Franken is seeking data from all 87 of the state’s counties to see if rejected votes were done so properly.

Fourteen counties have already turned over the data, but Ramsey was a holdout.