According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, as of Friday, Al Franken now has about a 250 vote lead over Norm Coleman. According to the article, one of the problems with the recount is:
"the State Canvassing Board sidestepped the Coleman team's proposal to prevent as many as 150 ballots from being counted twice. Talking about instances when a ballot couldn't be run through a voting machine, requiring a duplicate to be made, the Coleman camp said that such ballots should be counted only if an original could be matched with its copy."
It sounds as if Franken is the recipient of duplicate voting. This sounds like an unbelievable mess. I just hope more rational heads rule, and the recount is handled evenly. I would hate to see Al Franken in the Senate. I think more of our elected officials than that.
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