Franken Takes And Holds The Lead

Democrat Al Franken holds a 262-vote lead in Minnesota's Senate recount after the State Canvassing Board has wrapped up its work deciding disputed ballots. Franken took the lead from Republican Norm Coleman on Friday and steadily increased it. The board was handling almost entirely Coleman challanges, and rejecting most of them. There's plenty of drama left. Next week,
some 5-thousand challenges that were withdrawn earlier will be allocated to the two candidates. And, an estimate 1600 improperly rejected absentee ballots will be brought into the count at some point. Coleman's campaign also went to court on Friday. They asked the State Supreme Court to block the Canvassing Board from including possibly double-counted ballots in the recount.