Coleman Keeps Fighting!

From Kevin Duchschere at the Star-Tribune:
Ignoring opponents' demands that he concede, Norm Coleman told the Minnesota Supreme Court Monday that a lower court got it all wrong when it ruled that Al Franken won the 2008 U.S. Senate election."
The Minnesota tradition in law [is] to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans whose votes have been wrongly rejected," said Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg.
Republican Coleman filed notice of his appeal to the state's high court late Monday, asserting in a seven-page statement that the judges who awarded the election last week to DFLer Franken by 312 votes had deprived thousands of absentee voters of their constitutional rights to have their ballots counted.
The judges did that, Coleman claims, by rejecting evidence that different standards were used across the state in counting or rejecting identical absentee ballots. They also refused to adopt a single standard to determine which ballots should be counted, he says.
In addition, Coleman argues that the judges failed to look into reports that some absentee ballots were counted twice and allowed 132 Minneapolis ballots to be counted even though they went missing during the recount.
But the heart of the appeal rests with the constitutional questions posed by the treatment of absentee ballots, Ginsberg said.
"Where one person's ballot has counted and an identical ballot has not been counted because different jurisdictions treated it differently, there is a principle at play here," he said.
Ginsberg said there's good reason to believe that Coleman can win enough of the disputed ballots to overtake Franken.
Norm Coleman is right. You can't count some ballots and not count others the same way. There cannot be multiple standards for counting the same kinds of ballots. This is an important principle. Keep fighting, Norm!