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“Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election,” pronounced the Wall Street Journal’s editorialists today. Election-law expert Edward Foley was quick to respond: “[T]his election was about as far from ‘stolen’ as any extraordinarily close and intensely disputed election could be — and to use that term in this context is [...]

Ohio State University election law expert Edward B. Foley takes a long, hard look at Norm Coleman’s appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court and finds the case to be more of a morass than he initially thought.

Three election-law experts who have been closely tracking the Norm Coleman-Al Franken contest for U.S. Senate weigh in today with written reactions to the final order (pdf) from the three-judge panel that heard Coleman’s complaint. All admired the order for its unanimity and deft handling of Coleman’s equal-protection claims.

Democrat Al Franken’s future now depends on how the three-judge panel presiding over Norm Coleman’s election contest trial handles the former Republican senator’s equal-protection claims, writes election law expert Ned Foley.