Minnesota’s canvassing board has rebuffed an eleventh hour effort by Al Franken to avert its certification of Norm Coleman as the winner in Minnesota’s Senate race. Coleman won by 215 votes, down significantly from his election-night margin of 725 for reasons that have never been fully explained.
The mandatory recount begins tomorrow. Since Minnesota uses optical scan ballots, there oughtn’t be a significant shift in the results from the actual counting, but you can’t rule out the possibility of chicanery. There are also some outstanding lawsuits.
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