Minnesota: what should be said in a notice of contest?
Eric Black at MinnPost.com criticizes the Coleman Notice of Contest: The petition has an almost generic quality. Think of every imaginable way that a vote for Coleman that should have been counted was rejected, add every way that a ballot given to Franken should have been disqualified, assert that all of these things happened and that if the courts will simply revisit the entire recount they will come to a different outcome. -- Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
I don't know anything about Minnesota election contests (and don't intend to find out), but in Alabama a notice of contest is just about the first and last pleading in the case. There are only six legal grounds to contest an election, and any good notice of contest alleges them all. The notice cannot be amended after the (very short) deadline for filing it. So the practice in Alabama is to allege everything and figure it out later.