Norm lawyer declares whole election tainted -- and doesn't rule out re-vote

TPM:

Coleman spokesman/lawyer Ben Ginsberg is really stepping up the rhetoric about how the entire vote count in Minnesota is tainted and unreliable -- and he is quite conspicuously not ruling out the idea of asking for a do-over election.

Ginsberg just held a dramatic press conference in the hallway of the court building, with six easels containing photocopies of absentee ballot envelopes that were already accepted and counted on Election Night. Ginsberg said he had 300 examples of ballots from St. Louis County (Duluth), a Democratic stronghold, where the voters clearly didn't follow instructions and the ballots should not have been accepted.

Ginsberg said this didn't just impugn the reliability of the recount -- it showed the illegality of Election Night totals, too, with the number of illegal votes far greater than the "erstwhile margin" of the race: "It also means with this sort of overwhelming evidence that were the court to certify the Election Night results they would be including illegal votes. And the court's charge is to count legal votes, and that would be a clear contradiction."

Coleman spokesman/lawyer Ben Ginsberg is really stepping up the rhetoric about how the entire vote count in Minnesota is tainted and unreliable -- and he is quite conspicuously not ruling out the idea of asking for a do-over election.