The Minnesota State Canvassing Board meets again on Tuesday to allocate the very last of the withdrawn ballots that were not disputed by either Democrat Al Franken or Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in the still up-for-grabs Minnesota Senate race. 

Those ballots are just a part of the 6,600 original challenged ballots that may be put back into the mix. Franken's unofficial lead over Coleman remains at 46 votes. 

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told FOX News that only a dozen of the remaining ballots need some sort of final action. They'll also provide updated totals, which will include every vote except for those that are considered "improperly rejected absentee ballots."

This week in 12 locations around the state, county election officials along with representatives of both campaigns will meet to agree on the list of 1,350 wrongly rejected absentee ballots. The estimate was originally about 1,600 but once the counties took a look at them, the number of rejected ballots was determined to be 1,350 instead. The ballots have not been opened yet, but the campaigns will agree on the description of the ballots to determine if they were in fact wrongly rejected.

Once the list is agreed on, the actual unopened ballots will all come to the Ritchie's office and must arrive by the end of business on Friday.

This coming weekend election officials will open and allocate the approved "wrongly rejected absentee ballots" to either Franken or Coleman or perhaps neither candidate, and that process will follow the method done with the recounted ballots. Any challenges to that process will be recorded.

Next Monday, the canvassing board will meet again and decide on those challenged ballots. A winner could be certified on Monday or Tuesday next week. The new session of Congress will be sworn in on Tuesday. 

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Monday that although state law gives the governor power to fill a Senate vacancy, most close to the race say they believe Gov. Tim Pawlenty likely will have no role to play. The governor's office last week said only in the case of a permanent vacancy would Pawlenty step in, and this is not the case in a disputed election. 

Those voters whose ballots were considered "wrongly rejected" at the county level but then determined as "properly rejected" by one or both of the campaigns will be notified by letter and told that they have a right under Minnesota law to appeal to the state Supreme Court.

The state Supreme Court affirmed last week the Canvassing Board's decision that duplicate ballots are not an issue, a point the Coleman campaign brought to the court to argue that more than 100 ballots were counted twice. 

FOX News' Carina Sonn contributed to this report.