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With more and more papers — including these nine — calling for Norm Coleman to concede the U.S. Senate race, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants to capitalize on what its hopes is growing voter disenchantment with the drawn-out affair. The DSCC is seeking signatures on a petition for Coleman to step down and, as part of its appeal, has created an interactive timeline of ways Coleman has “obstructed” the process.

Starting with Coleman’s Nov. 5 statement that’d he’d “step back” if trailing in the vote count, the timeline runs through Monday’s filing of an appeal to the state Supreme Court. Peppered in between are key votes that Minnesota’s second senator missed due to the unresolved election, including the Mar. 10 passage of the Omnibus Appropriations Act and the Jan. 22 passage of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The DSCC is 5,000 signatures away from its goal of 100,000 people calling for Coleman to give it up.