Nov 192008
MPR’s website has photos of some of the ballots that the Franken and Coleman campaigns have challenged in the first day of the vote recount. I do not envy the state canvassing board, the body charged with ascertaining the voter’s intent on each of these ballots. Its members will have to endure Talmudic debates over the meaning of a partially filled-in bubble, an ambiguous smudge, or a haphazardly drawn line. And I don’t envy the lawyers whose job it will be to make those arguments. If I was in their position, my ears would start to bleed sometime before lunch on the first day.
