Election Update

Well, the Star Tribune had a "reader analysis" of images of some of the challenged ballots, and they ran the numbers from that, and concluded that Franken would win.

So, Coleman's lawsuit against counting ballots continues, and the Minnesota Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments tomorrow but they did not grant an injunction, which indicates that they did not see anything earthshaking in the filings.

In the mean time, TPMElectionCentral has been live blogging the canvassing board, and we have notice that the Coleman campaign is reissuing challenges to ballots that it had previously withdrawn, and that Franken's challenges, which were reviewed first (it's going to be a multi-day process at least) seem to be generally be well received by the board, i.e. not considered bogus, and he's picked up about 43 votes, which is ahead of where Franken's team was predicting the numbers, and they predicted a 4 vote win.

Again, this is going to be tight in either case.