Sorry for the brief diary, but this is just breaking from the Star-Tribune:
Out of the 400 votes ordered counted by the Minnesota Election Contest Court (ECC) last week, the Secretary of State's office has confirmed that 13 of them have already been counted, either on election night or during the recount.
That leaves 387 absentee votes remaining in Coleman's ever-shrinking ballot universe. Based on prior returns, we can expect 16% of them (62 ballots) to be cast for Dean Barkley and other candidates, leaving 325 ballots for either Coleman or Franken.
But we already know that there are 35 votes for Franken from the Nauen group, plus another 12 subject to prior summary judgement that are also from Franken's team. And this morning's Star-Tribune also revealed that one absentee ballot from Aitkin County is definitely for Franken. That's 48 known Franken votes. After those votes are counted, the Franken lead will be
225 + 48 = 273
... and the remaining votes to be counted will be:
325 - 48 = 277
So Al will lead by 273 votes with 277 left to be counted. With just 3 votes out of those 277, Franken will win.