Yesterday the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Al Franken the winner of the Minnesota Senate seat over incumbent Norm Coleman.

While its frustrating to me to watch a character like Al Franken be elected to the Senate to take a seat next to all the other clowns we already have in Washington (both Republican and Democrat), the drama that’s played out over the last several months reveals one thing to me.

The system we have in place to cast and count votes is broken!

And I don’t just say this because Franken won.

As the voting public, we have this inherent expectation that when we vote, the votes will be counted accurately and the winner will be declared with a high amount of certainty.  Ideally, a recount of the votes would return the exact same results as the initial count, and it’s clear that this doesn’t happen.  Remember, Coleman was declared the winner of a tight race until Franken legitimately demanded a recount that resulted in a very different outcome.

In an age where I can order merchandise over a secure website, access my bank account from anywhere in the world with a feeling of security, it bothers me that many places in our country are still using paper ballots to cast votes and human beings to count them.

In the end, I think Minnesota got the Senate representative they deserve, and maybe Franken will step in and shed some light on how comedic and corrupt our government is.

The only thing we can do now is watch the fallout and hope that technology will lend a hand in our political system.

Politics Al Franken, Norm Coleman, Senate, voting