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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/court-rules-on-franken-effort-to-limit-colemans-evidence-yes-and-no.php

And it turns out they've split the difference. Coleman's lawyers have alternately been talking about looking at all 11,000 remaining absentee ballots that have been rejected, or just looking at 4,797 of them, while Franken wants to limit Coleman to a prior list of 654.

The court is allowing Coleman to continue presenting evidence on the 4,797, which had been disclosed to the Franken camp in the summary judgment filings before the trial began. But that's it.

It's hard to tell what impact this might have. These ballots are obviously cherry-picked for votes that Coleman's people believe would break heavily his way, but it seems very unlikely that they would actually be able to get a great deal of them admitted. They've been bringing some of those same aggrieved voters to the witness stand, to plead for their ballots -- and in quite a few cases they've been total duds.