The recount for the Minnesota Senate seat is underway. MPR posted some images of the ballots about which decisions are to be made, and readers got to weigh in with their opinions. A popular image is of the ballot marked "Lizard People." Instead of filling in the bubble, as you can see here, some people drew circles, made checks, underlined, or...just did something else like write "Lizard People" wherever you could enter a write-in candidate. Because Minnesota law decrees that it is the duty of the recounters to submit all ambiguous (or challenged) ballots to the scrutiny of the Canvasing Board for final determination, someone will have to decide if this ballot from Beltrami county should be counted for Al Franken, or "Lizard People." So far (as of Friday Nov 21 at 4:24 PM) the "MPR voters" have indicated their desire that this vote should count for Franken, but 9% (a total of 9392 our of 110098) this this ballot should go to "Lizard People."
And thus, says Paul Schmelzer, a new internet meme is born!There is now a Twitter account for fakelizardpeople. If, after the recount is over, the votes are tied, the race will be decided by a coin toss.
Just for fun, here is the cutest lizard video I've seen, recently posted at Cute Overload
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Lizard people are pretty appealing, but I still have to pull for Franken.
Though maybe if they'd caucus with the Democrats....
Why didn't I think of this? I could have written in the Gorn! Lizard Captain!
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