Update: Marc "Spoiled Ballots" Elias Set Up Shop In MA Before Race

Update: More with an image via Sissy Willis.

Here we go. We've been down this road with Franken. Elias represented him.

Coakley attorney Marc Elias speaking now, claiming spoiled ballots ... Elias is Al Franken's former campaign attorney. Yep.

Via the Minnesota Independent. Enter Greg Sargent with a couple silly reports and we're off to the races if it's close.

If a few weird ballots and premature cries of “stolen election” aren’t enough to suggest Massachusetts’ special election might not be resolved quickly, perhaps this is: Marc Elias, who served as lead attorney for Al Franken’s legal team, has set up shop in the state, just in case.

Elias, who works at the D.C. firm of Perkins Coie, will represent Democrat Martha Coakley. The Republican side includes Daniel Winslow, a partner at Duane Morris in Boston, and Sean Cairncross, a National Republican Senatorial Committee attorney, among others, Politico reports.

Earlier this afternoon, The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent reported that two Cambridge voters received ballots pre-marked for Republican Scott Brown.

Comments

[DJ]

Perfectly fine for this woman to be passing out absentee ballots for Coakley on election day though..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2fNwttq23s

[Joan H.]

Posted this at Greg Sargent's and PlumLine also -- the claim is that the ballot was already "bubbled in" for Scott Brown:

What do they mean, bubble? Unless there are different ballots for different precincts, you complete the ballot by connecting the two parts of the arrow to the right of the candidate's name. See the photo posted by Sissy Willis:

http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2010/01/exit-polling-high-fives-among-dems-indeps-at-sight-of-my-scott-brown-sign.html

[Al in St. Lou]

Aren't there supposed to be poll sitters from both parties witnessing what goes on at each polling place? Wouldn't anyone marking a ballot before giving it to a voter get kicked out? Am I just really naive?

[chercast]

Perkins Coie! What a household name by now.