reccount

It was a part of a Minnesota Supreme Court order that few could love. Last month the campaigns of Al Franken and Norm Coleman got the right, by a 3-2 court ruling, to reject absentee ballots in the state’s Senate recount that election officials had determined were lawfully cast.

And reject they did, leaving about 400 individual voters with only one way to re-enfranchise themselves: by filing a lawsuit of their own. But they have to do it by Jan. 12, and it could cost as much as $5,000 per voter.