Video: Coleman and Franken tell court which rejected ballots to count

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The Minnesota senate election contest trial could take a turn today, and you can watch it here live (via The UpTake) starting at 1 p.m. Central Time. Lawyers for Norm Coleman and Al Franken will make their pitches for the court to examine or not examine 4,800 absentee ballots that so far aren’t included in the vote tally. On Tuesday, the three-judge panel spelled out 19 categories of ballots (depending on the circumstances for their rejection) and asked the two sides to weigh in on why they should be included or excluded.

You can’t tell the players without a program, so here are pdfs for the answers they got from Coleman (he says count most of ‘em) and Franken (he says only count a few kinds of ‘em).

Here is video from The UpTake. The live stream of the Senate election contest court hearing on ballot categories should start at 1 p.m. Central Time, Feb. 12, 2008. The judges have promised to rule by Monday morning. 

(UPDATE: The hearing ended and court went into recess at 2:10 p.m. The video below may replay the hearing or other proceedings related to the election contest trial.)