The Coleman campaign has just made its latest move in the ongoing effort to discredit the legitimacy of the Minnesota recount: A letter to the Secretary of State warning that the whole thing will be "invalid and unreliable" unless the rules for sorting out the wrongly-rejected absentee ballots are changed.

At issue here is the fact that the Coleman campaign has so far tried to get about 650 rejected envelopes put into the count, which the local election officials say were properly thrown out the first time. Yesterday a Coleman lawyer said the Secretary of State's directions to the counties were meant to only include ballots that Al Franken wants counted -- the sample of 1,350 ballots put forth by the various county officials is believed to favor Franken, while the 650 that Coleman wants are largely from his own strongholds.

So what does this mean, exactly? What it means is that the Coleman campaign clearly expects to lose the recount, and to then go to court alleging a widespread pattern of mistreatment by pro-Franken election officials. Otherwise they would simply say things were not being handled thoroughly or properly, as opposed to using the words "invalid and unreliable."