Franken Legal Team: Coleman Is Doctoring Evidence

By GottaLaff

First, the 18 1/2-minute gap. Then, the 14-million-e-mail gap. Now, the explanation-of-rejected-absentee-ballot gap:

At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence.

As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected absentee ballot envelope, one of which he said was the unaltered original, and the other taken from Coleman's legal filings in his attempts to get more of the rejected ballots opened. The Coleman copy was missing the section in which a local election official explained why it was rejected.

Coleman attorney James Langdon speculated that there may have been a photocopying problem.

Blame the Xerox machine. Yeah, that's credible. It somehow deleted an entire section. Then the dog ate it.