The canvassing board in Minnesota met today and made a few decisions.

1. It looks like they will be including the 133 votes per the count on Election Day so that is +46 for Franken

2. They also recommended that most or all of the rejected absentee ballots be reviewed and/or counted but left the decision to each county. Some would argue that this benefits Franken on the theory that his voters are newer and thus more likely to make mistakes.

But it could be countered that such voters were also more likely to vote at the polls on Election Day rather than  vote absentee. In adddition if the theory that urban voters are more likely to make mistakes is true then the election officials in those areas would be more experienced at reviewing such ballots and less likely to reject them.

A third argument would be that the rejected ballots are likely to work out the same as the rest of the ballots cast so it wouldn’t really favor either side.

We will have to see what happens.

Info here

Cartoon by RJ Matson, Roll Call