According to MyWay.com the recount in the Minnesota election has been certified by the Minnesota Canvassing Board. This allows Norm Coleman seven days to challenge the results legally. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie pointed out that the board was simply certifying the results of the recount--not certifying the election.
According to Power Line Blog, there are few problems with this recount. According the their post:
"Franken's campaign was aggressive about getting lists of voters whose ballots were excluded, checking those lists against the DFL database, and interviewing voters who they thought were sympathetic. My impression is that the Coleman campaign was nowhere near as aggressive in trying to identify rejected ballots that favor their candidate. It may be, therefore, that Franken's campaign consistently agreed to include ballots that they knew were for their candidate while objecting (regardless of the merits) to ballots that they believed were for Coleman. If that's the case, the remaining ballots (i.e., those on which the campaigns did not agree) may tend to favor Coleman. That's speculation, of course, but at the moment some such scenario will have to be true for Coleman to have a chance."
There is no way everyone is going to be satisfied with either result of this election. My message to the people of Minnesota is, "Enough of you voted for Al Franker to trigger the recount, if you find yourself represented by Al Franken and you are not happy, learn from the experience."
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