You too can be that Palm Beach County vote counter with that magnifying glass
Take the following exercise of figuring out the “Intent of the voter” for the Minnesota Senate race and you’ll start to understand what this guy here
must have felt like. Well, except for you don’t have to deal with a these people pounding on your window:
Unless they are. Those guys aren’t pounding on your window right now, are they? Okay. A run down. Your mileage may vary.
Day 3 #1: Norm Coleman gets the vote
Day 2 #1: Norm Coleman.  Put this in a mental file, and I’ll explain this as : this voter decided that he really wanted Bachman to be in the running but ended up settling for Coleman.
Day 2 #2:Â Al Franken gets the vote.
Day 2 #3:Â Ballot rejected.
Day 2 #4:Â Norm Coleman gets the vote.
Day 1 #1: Al Franken gets the vote.
Day 1 #2:Â Accept the ballot, Norm Coleman gets the vote.
Day 1 #3:Â Reject the ballot.
Day 1 #4:Â Al Franken gets the vote.
Day 1 #5: Al Franken gets the vote. Just as the Coleman voter really wanted Bachman in the running, this Franken voter really wanted Lizard People to be in the running, but in the end… voted for Franken. What is odd is that if the voter had filled out the “other box” for the write-in “Lizard People”, I would have been inclined to reject the ballot, but as he didn’t fill that one out, I just have to say he wants Franken. I do not know who this one throws a bigger light of craziness — Coleman people like Bachman and Franken people like Lizard People.
Day 1 #6:Â Ballot rejected.
Day 1 #7:Â Norm Coleman gets the vote.
Day 1 #8:Â Al Franken gets the vote.
Day 1 #9:Â Dean Barkley gets the vote.
Day 1 #10:Â Dean Barkley gets the vote.
Day 1 #11:Â Reject the ballot.
Mercy me. What grabs you is the intellectual inconsistency in how the two sides, the Franken side and the Coleman side, argue over the challenged ballots. But that’s how horse race partisan politics works: blinders on.