Minnesota Madness

Both Al Franken and Norm Coleman are engaged in some disgusting vote-challenging tactics in the Minnesota Senate recount.

Coleman should be ashamed of himself for challenging this clear vote for Franken because of a tiny dot next to independent candidate Dean Barkley:

Franken should be ashamed of himself for challenging this clear vote for Coleman because the thumbprint could potentially be used to identify the voter (any voter that identifies him/herself on the ballot gets their ballot tossed out under Minnesota law):

Then there are the genuinely confusing ballots. Did this voter intend to cross out Al Franken’s name (my initial thought) or to underline it:

And there are the funny and bizarre ballots, such as this person who filled in the bubble for Franken but also wrote “Lizard People” on the write-in line:

(What an idiot. Doesn’t he know he has to vote for a specific lizard person?)

For more of these photos and your chance to vote on them, check out this really cool webpage.