Is This Your Ballot

As an avid reader of this blog, you are well aware of the close Senate race in Minnesota. 2,500,000 people voted and as they tally the ballots it looks to be within 100 votes. State judges have already verified all of the regular votes and are now going through the "questionable" ballots. These are ones where the voter did not clearly and correctly indicate their preference. Luckily (and very fairly) the judges and the law, can say a vote counts if the "intent" was clear. In an amazing quirk of transparency, you can actually view all of the questionable ballots online (you can even click on them to see the exact reason why they are in question). This is wonderful and I wonder what would happen if it came down to one vote and one ballot which was in question. What if that was your ballot and you just slipped while writing and didn't make a clear mark. What if you knew that was your ballot, would they let you state your intent? It would only work if somehow you could prove it was your ballot; maybe it was a tiny rural voting and you were the only one who votes, but that is quite unlikely. Anyway, check out the website. http://senaterecount.startribune.com/ballots/index.php?review_date=2008-12-19&index=8

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