Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterDisputed Senate ballots hold key to Minn. win (AP)
Published 11/21/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - A recount watchdog for Norm Coleman flagged a ballot because the voter put a check next to Al Franken's name instead of blacking in the oval. A Franken monitor challenged an apparent vote for Coleman because Franken's name was also marked. And representatives of both men invoked challenges because of marks elsewhere on the ballot that could make them identifiable.
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