Yes, mistakes were made. But I think the state officials (and even the Supreme Court) said they were on such a small scale and could not be proven one way or the other that there was nothing that they could do about it.

That said, I agree that the whole process needs to be addressed. Why does Pawlenty disagree?

Just because there wasn’t a judicial remedy in the U.S. Senate recount doesn’t mean that mistakes weren’t made and the process shouldn’t be heavily scrutinized and improved. Your party called George W. Bush illegitimate after not only the 2000 Florida recount but also after the 2004 election when claims were made that Bush stole Ohio.

The Florida recount was heavily scrutinized and important reforms were made for Florida as well as dozens of other states. Just because Mark Ritchie is happy with the result and you’re happy with the result doesn’t mean we should keep our head in the sand regarding the many mistakes that were made with respect to how ballots were treated in various parts of the state.

Coleman v. Franken* is done. What KSTP did was verify to the world that mistakes were made in the process.

Ritchie has sole responsibility for this. He has since day one.

OR…

You could rely on your lawyers to do the best they could with the evidence that was there and not waste your time waiting for a local news station to tell us something we didn’t already know and that wasn’t relevant to anything being argued in court.