Editorial: Expedite appeal in election contest (Star Trib)

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And act this year to simplify absentee voting procedures.
Last update: April 15, 2009 - 10:57 AM

The three judges were unanimous on Monday, and bluntly clear: In their view, Norm Coleman's claim that more rejected absentee ballots belong in the U.S. Senate election count is without legal merit ... Coleman vigorously disagrees, and alleges that some 4,400 absentee voters have been wrongfully disenfranchised ...

... Coleman has a right to appeal, and the absentee voters whose ballots he seeks to add to the count have a right to serious consideration under the law.

But those rights stand in increasingly evident tension with Minnesota's constitutional right to dual representation in the U.S. Senate ...

Monday's undivided ruling goes a long way toward vindicating Minnesota's election system. Three respected, veteran district court judges, appointed by three governors with differing partisan ties, took testimony from 142 witnesses, collected 1,717 exhibits and examined more than 19,000 pages of pleadings, motions and briefs ...

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1. coleman is holding up Minnesota progress

just like he held up the US progress when he was the Senator.