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...matter has still not been resolved. Ever since the recount was completed, the two campaigns have been fighting over crucial handful of ballots that are being challenged for one reason or another. On Friday, Franken won a round in court when a state elections board ruled that more than 600 rejected absentee ballots could be sorted and counted, and that 133 missing ballots from Minneapolis could be counted by examining the tapes from a ballot counting machine. Coleman promptly said he would challenge the ruling in court...
...That's exactly what's going on in Minnesota, where 2.9 million voters left Senator Norm Coleman just 215 votes ahead of Saturday Night Live star Al Franken. Since then, both sides have politely allowed a legally required hand recount to take place, one with very clearly specified rules and no scheduled end date. But the recount ended on Dec. 5, just as Minnesota's secretary of state said it would, and the result didn't differ much from the initial count. "We didn't have to do a lot of overtime," says Cindy Reichert, the elections director of Minneapolis...
...only hope Coleman and Franken take a page from that more gentlemanly era, but it's not likely. The campaign was hard fought, bordering on nasty, with loads of negative advertising on both sides. Coleman sued Franken during the campaign for defamation - the case was thrown out of court - and the two teams have already been battling before judges over recount issues. Which brings to mind the most dramatic and important recount in American history...
...impossible to say how or when the Franken-Coleman contest will be decided. All that Minnesotans - and the next class of U.S. Senators - can do is wait. Anyone looking for early clarity is bound to come up empty. Case in point, this blog-post headline currently on Coleman's campaign-website homepage...
...COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: WE LEAD BY 2,200 VOTES!*** ***(Okay, Maybe Not, but Al Franken Does Not Hold a Lead in the Recount...