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Today is the deadline for counties to submit wrongly-rejected absentee ballot to the Secretary of State.

The Coleman campaign is again asking the MN Supreme Court to intervene. MPR, Star Tribune and Kare11

Voters whose ballots are rejected might not receive notice until it's too late.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie talks to ABC News about the campaigns and partisanship.

State Government

Big changes could be on the way for MN's counties.

Lawmakers and Gov. Pawlenty say they will work to fix the Green Acres property-tax program.

Education groups are pushing the legislature to establish an independent commission to look at state education policy.

MPR will follow McLeod West School as it prepares to close after a school levy failed to pass in November.

State colleges and universities hope to have a quarter of their classes online by 2015.

And Zygi Wilf says a new Vikings stadium would be an economic stimulus.

Congress

President-elect Obama will meet with Congressional leaders on Monday to talk about his economic stimulus plan.

Cabinet confirmation hearings will start in the Senate on Thursday.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden still hasn't said when he'll resign from the Senate and may even take votes on the Senate floor next week.

CQ Politics looks at the "Dids and Didn'ts" of the last Congress.