Franken Certified Winner in Minnesota

The Minnesota State Canvassing Board certified results Monday showing Al Franken, a Democrat, winning the Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman.

Earlier today, the state Supreme Court rejected the Coleman campaign’s petition to count several hundred additional absentee ballots.

After this weekend’s tally of mistakenly rejected absentee ballots, Mr. Franken, the Democrat, was holding on to a 225-vote lead. The Supreme Court has declined the Mr. Coleman’s appeal to consider 654 more ballots.

This makes me wonder what could have happened had Al Gore fought for a recount in Florida in 2000...