The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a table here that tallies the 2008 rejected Minnesota absentee ballots. What most people are focusing on is the number in Category 5 ("Mistakenly rejected"). As of 6:34 pm CT, there were 692 such ballots identified from 40 counties.
There is also Category 3 ("Voter not registered and no application card included in return application"). MN has same-day voter registration, so new voters can apply when they vote. Some absentee voters forgot to send in their card.
Apparently someone noticed early on in the absentee ballot segregation that some of the secrecy envelopes were kind of heavy. What do you suppose might be inside? A filled-out voter application card perhaps?
So now we have Category 3a ("Voter not registered; however, it appears there may be a voter registration card in secrecy envelope").
Now this is interesting, because so far there are 40 such ballots that have been identified. Arguably the voter registration card was included in the return envelope, only inside the second envelope.
Does anyone want to venture a guess as to whether these absentee ballots might be contested also before we are all done with this recount? Especially if after the count of the Category 5 ballots, the margin is, oh, about 20 votes.
In the table, 36 counties are shown as "Complete" with their ballot segregation. Another three (Hennepin, Martin, Murray) are "In process." 13 intend to start next week. Two are "Not scheduled," and four (Freeborn, Itasca, Ramsay, Sherburne) say they "Will not participate."
I would think that these four counties might be changing their minds after the Canvassing Board's request today. That leaves 29 counties with no status at all. My guess is that almost all will jump on board and get this done next week, barring Coleman’s threatened injunction.