The already-bizarre Minnesota recount just got a bit more comical, with the Coleman campaign offering up a list of rejected absentee ballots that they say should be counted, under a state Supreme Court ruling giving each campaign effective veto power over counting votes -- a list of ballots that just so happen to come mostly from suburban and rural counties that he swept in the election.

The local election officials throughout Minnesota have now identified about 1,350 absentee ballots that they've concluded were rejected by clerical errors -- for example, if the election officials didn't see the voter's name on the registration rolls when they were in fact there -- and ought to be counted. A large portion of these ballots come from counties that Al Franken carried, so Franken would almost certainly extend his current 47-vote lead over Coleman if they're all counted.

The Franken campaign supports the counting of all 1,350 ballots. But the Coleman campaign has come back with its own list of 650 ballots, coming mostly from his own strongholds, that the campaign says were wrongly rejected and are worthy of being included. So it looks like they're not only cherry-picking, but they're not being at all subtle about it.

This bedlam all stems from a state Supreme Court opinion from a week and a half ago that called for wrongly-rejected ballots to be counted, but only if both campaigns agreed that an individual envelope was wrongly rejected. The obvious logical outcome from this is that one campaign (in practice, Coleman) will only offer to count ballots they think will work out for themselves, based on where the votes are from, and the other campaign will refuse to play along.

So unless something drastic happens to change the situation over the next few days, such as a new court intervention, it's possible that nearly zero ballots could be approved by the deadline this Friday.