The incoming head of the Minnesota State GOP has a statement on today’s State Supreme Court Ruling in favor of Al Franken.  

Today’s ruling wrongly disenfranchised thousands of Minnesotans who deserve to have their votes counted.  Alongside Senator Coleman, the Republican Party of Minnesota has fought to make sure every vote counts and all voters are treated fairly and uniformly.  As we move forward, our deeply flawed election system must be dramatically improved to ensure our state’s elections are fair, accurate and reliable.

Let’s get two things straight:  

1. Filling out a ballot which ought to, by rule, be rejected is not the same as being disenfranchised.

2. There is nothing wrong with the Minnesota electoral process.  If you don’t like how long the recount took, maybe your respective political party (whichever one it is) ought to try and escape the margin of error in getting more votes than the other candidates next time around.  This whole mess falls on the political parties.  Not the voters.  Not the public officials who conducted the election and the recount.  Not the election law. Not the Judiciary.  Not the Governor’s office.  The parties.  So the last people I want to hear talking about how terrible this has been are the same people who have put us through this entire foolishness because neither side was competent enough to run an election that didn’t embolden a third party candidate to jump in and take a large number of votes.  Don’t blame the good people and good laws of my state for your idiocy.