The Minnesota Senate election is still going. Powerline thinks Coleman is losing because he is being "outlawyered."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/02/022875.php

It is a sad state of affairs that we have to have lawyers count the votes. Somehow the lawyers are able to devine how people intended to vote. When I was young the Democrats deliberately designed the ballot so that interpretation by the election judge was necessary. For example, you were supposed to black out all of the names on the ballot except the one you wanted to vote for. There were a lot of candidates for President, so a lot of people just circled the one they wanted. The election judge then examined the non-conforming ballots. If the voter had circled the Democrat, the judge counted the vote. But, if the voter circled the Republican, the judge couldn't determine who the voter wanted, and the ballot was rejected. Apparently the Democrats still do this sort of thing though I'm unaware of how they do it now. I have noticed that challenges such as the one in Minnesota show up in jurisdictions where the Democrats control the election process.