Opinion: 42 days: Minnesota’s still counting Coleman and Franken ballots

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By the time they settle this Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it’ll be time to start fundraising for the next one.

Still no winner. Or loser.

Surrogates for incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic comedian Al Franken are still arguing over the last couple of hundred votes.

The state canvassing board is set to start ruling on challenged ballots today. But meanwhile the Coleman camp charges that 200 already-counted ballots are about to be added to the pile and double-counted.

The Franken camp thinks it’s only 192 votes behind.

At one ballot a day we should have a winner and a loser by late spring, which is still mid-winter up there.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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