"Brutal" day for Coleman: "Doctored Evidence" Tossed on First Day of Coleman/Franken Election Contest

By GottaLaff

I first posted about Al Franken's accusations of Coleman's doctoring evidence here. Whaddya know... the 3-judge panel wasn't pleased either:

In what TPM's Eric Kleefeld describes as "a truly brutal moment, one that could undermine the credibility of Norm Coleman's whole case," the Republican fomer Senator's political director was called to testify about doctored evidence, as revealed by Al Franken's attorneys last week, which they'd submitted in their U.S. Senate election contest against the apparent-winner in Minnesota.

By the end of the day today, the first official day of the trial, the 3-judge panel threw out the tainted evidence --- photocopies of rejected absentee ballots where the Coleman camp had either removed written comments from election officials as to why they were rejected, or left in text added by the campaign itself --- and allowed Coleman's team to subpoena and then re-submit the actual ballot envelopes.

Attaboy, Toker Norm, keep digging yourself deeper into that hole.