In Minnesota, it looks like there were twice as many improperly rejected absentee ballots as previously thought, so in addition to the challenges, we now have something on the order of 2,000 wrongly rejected absentee ballots.

here is the part that I do not get:

The fate of those ballots is hotly contested but unclear.

On Friday, the state canvassing board, made up of four judges and the secretary of state, will decide whether to count the votes on those ballots that election judges mistakenly didn’t count on Election Day.

If they were legal votes, why shouldn’t they be counted?

Is there something in the finer points of MN election laws that I don’t get?