Al Franken’s lawyers have argued that Norm Coleman has not proven that any large number of new votes should be counted, and so his election challenge should be dismissed with prejudice. To be specific:

Coleman, who rested his case this week, hasn’t proved there are more votes for him than for Franken, the Democrat’s attorneys said. Of the thousands of rejected absentee ballots Coleman has said should be counted, he has brought proper evidence only that nine should be counted.

Nine votes? Coleman’s side calls it “fuzzy math.” (If true, it would mean there’s been some amazingly bad lawyering.) Meanwhile, a Rasmussen polls shows that an incredible 46 percent plurality of Minnesotans think there should be a re-vote, even though most believe that Franken has won.