Norm Coleman’s legal team called a half-dozen voters to the witness stand on the second day of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election contest trial. Their personal tales of electoral woe went a ways toward refreshing the court’s palate after a disastrous Monday in which the judges chucked Coleman’s altered evidence, but not without lingering overtones of forgery.
The neverending U.S. Senate contest will now be put on trial. Beginning this afternoon a three-judge panel will weigh evidence on whether the state Canvassing Board got the vote tally right when it certified Al Franken as the winner by 225 votes.
In today’s draft for Minnesota Senate election judges, Associate Supreme Court Justice Alan Page picked District Court judges Elizabeth A. Hayden, Kurt Marben and Denise Reilly. A veritable flying wedge of jurisprudence, the trio constitutes…
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