sentences:  The Coleman campaign filed suit with the state Supreme Court to temporarily halt such counting until "a standard procedure" could be determined, but the State Supreme Court ruled on December 18 that the improperly rejected absentee ballots be included in the recount.The Court also prescribed that a standard procedure be established by the Secretary of State's office in conjunction with the two campaigns.As of December 30, county officials had found about 1,350 wrongly rejected ballots.