Markos explains the latest in the Republican's battle to stop the 59th Senator from being seated simply because he's a Democrat.
Today, Minnesota counted the absentee ballots the Minnesota Election Contest Court ordered counted, and not surprisingly, Al Franken's lead has swelled to 312 votes over Norm Coleman.
There are two remaining decisions for the ECC -- whether to count the 133 missing ballots and what to do about the 100 double-counted votes the Coleman campaign claimed (with zero evidence) were cast. More likely than not, those final two issues will be dispatched in Franken's favor, but worst case scenario, losing those two claims would net Coleman just 146 votes, clearly not enough to overcome Franken's lead. The "counting the votes" phase of this election is finally over, six months after the election. All that's left now is the appeals.
