Challenged Ballots: You Decide

The Senate race in Minnesota STILL isn’t decided!

The race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat and former comedian Al Franken was too close to call after the votes were counted. In fact, after over 2 MILLION votes were counted, the difference was less than 300 votes.

LESS THAN 300 VOTES!!!

(Don’t ever let anyone EVER tell you that their vote doesn’t count)

The state of Minnesota is currently recounting the votes. While this seems simple, it really isn’t at all. Sometimes its hard to tell EXACTLY what the voters intent is!

Can you tell who the voter intended to vote for?

Challenged ballots: You be the judge – Minnesota Public Radio puts together a sample of challenged ballots like this one.

Check it out!

What do you think?

Tags: Al Franken, Callenged Ballots, Democrat, Minnesota, Norm Coleman, Republican, Senate, voter, voter intent, you be the judge

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 9:24 pm by mrosman and is filed under Current Events, Education, Electoral Process, Pop Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Challenged Ballots: You Decide”

Maro says:

11/21/2008 at 8:24 am

Heh I think voters do things like this to spite the political system in general. Why spite the system? Because it’s imperfect and doesn’t work the way it should for today’s society, but it still gives every state a voice instead of being outvoted.

Few votes. Minnesota probably doesn’t care regardless of who wins, or are lazy

Maro says:

11/21/2008 at 8:24 am

Heh I think voters do things like this to spite the political system in general. Why spite the system? Because it’s imperfect and doesn’t work the way it should for today’s society, but it still gives every state a voice instead of being outvoted.

Few votes. Minnesota probably doesn’t care regardless of who wins, or are lazy

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