As many of you know there is a close recount for the US Senate Seat in Minnesota. Less than 300 votes separate the incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and challenger Democrat Al Franken. The state is currently in the midst of a hand recount of all ballots. About 6,000 ballots have been challenged by the two camps. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has taken 10% of the controversial ballots and scanned them in as PDF's and are having the general public vote on what the "intent" of the voter was. I'm done with just over 100 and it still continues to fascinate me how many different ways the voter blew it or conversely, how the machine completely didn't register the voters clear intent.
Here's the link to the sample controversial ballots.
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