Mike, I'm not suggesting copper theft is one of the nation's most pressing issues, but, at the former HQ building at Ft. Snelling, which has sat abandoned since WW II, soldiers posted there at the end of the 19th century attached big brass plaques to honor fallen comrades. They are gone now. One was taken for safekeeping after the other was stolen. Fortunately I got photos before they disappeared. My photo might have been the last indication it was there.

Point being that though small...

I really don't mean to join in a pile on for corrections, but, there weren't 12,000 wrongly rejected ballots. There were 12,000 rejected ballots, of which 1350 were determined by local election officials to have been rejected by election worker error. Franken sought to have these counted, and offered to Coleman that all be counted instead of either one using their veto power. Coleman chose to use it however, which is why the campaigns vetoed about 400 ballots. The 600 ballots Coleman asked...

Tony, there is a need, even if it wasn't mandatory-recount close, because we keep having plurality elections. Every party in the state has endorsed runoffs in the form of IRV except for the Republicans. I hope now the Republicans will get on board.

Though I hasten to add that a runoff would guarantee only a majority winner. There could still be runoffs close enough for mandatory recounts.

Conservatives proposing conspiracy theories have no idea if the results make no statistical sense. They're just repeating the current GOP talking points. Come on people, at least learn some basic math before making these nonsensical statements. Over 2.9 million votes, and a change of 450 --- that's still an incredibly accurate initial tally. Look at prior elections and the changes when election night totals were corrected, and this senate race was remarkable for its accuracy.

Or maybe...