Coleman Lawyer/Spin Doctor: Somebody stuffed the ballots?

In Wednesday's episode..

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Sometimes you have to wonder if there's a method to the madness of Joe Friedberg, Norm Coleman's top lawyer -- or whether he's just plain mad.

Friedberg had a very odd alternative explanation for a precinct that created a net gain of four votes for Coleman. "Well," he asked Dakota County elections manager Kevin Boyle, "Couldn't a dishonest person have picked up 24 ballots, run them through the machine, and then made them disappear?"
"It seems unlikely," said Boyle. "But I suppose that is possible."

"Well, I assure you that I'm not assuming there are a lot of dishonest people running around Dakota County -- not more than anywhere else," said Friedberg.

"But there are a lot of dishonest people out there, yes?"

So here's Friedberg's alternative explanation: A dishonest election worker could have stuffed the ballot box on Election Day, thinking they would never get caught -- and then gone into the voting machine and destroyed the additional 24 ballots right after doing this, just to make sure.
Friedberg did add, though, that he wasn't directly accusing anybody of anything -- only posing the scenario.

Franken lawyer David Lillehaug later revisited this:

Lillehaug: And under that hypothetical, the person would have to cast eight ballots for Coleman, 12 ballots for Franken, and four ballots for someone else, correct?

Boyle: Yes.

Lillehaug: Does that sound very likely to you, sir?

Boyle: It sounds highly unlikely.