No argument there. But neither failing would have been decisive without the 17,000 manufactured votes.
Keep in mind that even with those registration issues (and quite frankly, you cannot trust Minnesota Majority with their numbers), the actual vote totals still had Coleman in striking distance. In the event you didn’t read what I wrote earlier, during the campaign Coleman’s camp failed to identify who was requesting absentee ballots. Then during the recount, they still failed to do so; it was Franken’s campaign that was bugging the county auditors for the absentee ballot list. And when the Supreme Court, without any legal authority, allowed the parties to review the contested absentee ballots and allow those they mutually agreed to be counted to be counted, Franken’s people knew where their votes were and were generous in those counties while being stingy in Coleman’s counties. If Coleman’s legal team had any f-—ing sense, they would have refused to open up ANY of the contested ballots and left it up to the statutory recount procedures, which most likely (though not 100% assuredly) would have left Coleman on top.