If you are a registered user at the Minneapolis Star Tribune website, you can look through 599 of the more than 5,000 contested/disputed Coleman/Franken ballots and decide for yourself.  I've gone through the first 100 ballots.  I give 37 to Coleman, 44 to Franken and 19 to someone else or nobody.  If it were rational to project those forward -- i.e. if you gave Coleman 37% of the 5,000+ votes and Franken 44% of those votes -- Franken wins this race. 

Now, what we don't know is whether there was anything "random" or "random-sample-like" about the first 100 ballots at the Strib website.  Maybe they all came from a Democratic-leaning county.  Maybe they all came from a Republican-leaning county.  

Here are five (5) ballots I've selected (not at random) so you can see some of the "contested/disputed" ballots they're dealing with in Minnesota:

These ballots all seem pretty clear.  A lot of them aren't so clear.

I'm not neutral or unbiased about this particular race.  Al Franken comes to politics with the baggage of having been a comedian who said some things that weren't very funny, some of which were recorded.  I think Franken is smart.  I think he has a lot to offer to Minnesota and America.  I like Al.  I'd like to see him win.

Click here to go take the challenge and let me know if you get similar results. 

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