Counting of ballots continues in Minnesota from the senate elections that took place on November 4th, almost two months ago. The senate race is between republican Norm Coleman and democrat Al Franken, both of whom are famous entertainment figures. Coleman won the initial count by 215 votes, but after the Franken campaign found out that some 12,000 absentee ballots were disregarded, they demanded a recount. In the recount Franken is maintaining an approximate 50 vote lead.
Both Coleman's and Franken's campaign are arguing that certain ballots shouldn't be counted for a variety of reasons. No matter who wins, the other side will be forced to take it in stride, but deep down will feel that the win was illegitimate. I thought that we had this voting ballot thing fixed after what went down in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. We sent people into space about 50 years ago, but in 2009 we are still having issues with our voting system. We can do better.
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