What’s Wrong in Minnesota These Days?

Not many people realize this, but there is still a United States Senate seat being contested in Minnesota! The Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken race has gone into double or triple overtime at this point – the election was on November 4th and here we are on April 6th with no winner declared. Talk about an inefficient form of governing…

There are so many intricacies in the Minnesota election that it would be hard to list them all in one spot. For example, both the Republicans and the Democrats claim that the other party is trying to “steal” the election. I, admittedly, don’t know much about the ins and outs of the “who is stealing what” scenario, but I think that the rest of America has two very easy solutions for Minnesota.

Solution Number 1: Count each vote over again and come to a resolution on who had the most votes. Alright, I understand that there are allegations of vote tampering on either side of the election and that there was even allegations of more votes being counted in a district than eligible voters. Okay, fine. If Franken and Coleman can’t agree to that then…

Solution Number 2: Have a do over! My God, it worked in grade school during recess and gym class – maybe we could learn something from the simplicity of children who realize that they aren’t fully aware of what happened and thus opt to give it another shot. It’s obvious that no matter who wins the election in Minnesota that there will be lingering feelings of outrage and anger so why not just close this ugly chapter and have another election?

The Minnesota issue needs to be solved sooner rather than later. This is not a good thing for the democracy in that state or this nation.