According to new reports, Minnesota’s Canvassing Board is expected to announce today that Democrat Al Franken received the most overall votes from the nearly 3 million ballots cast for Senator on election day – way back in November.
Franken apparently has a a 225-vote lead over the incumbent, Republican Norm Coleman.
But things probably won’t be settled even after the announcement!
There’s a seven-day waiting period before an election certificate is completed and if any lawsuits are filed during that waiting period, certification is conditional until the issue is settled in court.
Lawyers for both campaigns have supposedly already laid the groundwork for lawsuits.
Coleman’s lawyers promised a lawsuit over their claim that some ballots duplicated on election night wound up being counted twice in the recount and also have a petition pending before the state Supreme Court to include 650 ballots that it says were improperly rejected but not forwarded by local officials to St. Paul for counting.
Will this thing ever get settled?????
The Senate goes back to work on Tuesday.
Guess Minnesota won’t be fully represented in the halls of government!
Should there be a revote???
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