More ridiculous than Lizard People: Coleman challenged “Thank you for counting my vote” vote

Flying Spaghetti Monster and Lizard People got the big press at yesterday’s State Canvassing Board’s review of challenged ballots in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, but another challenge by Coleman shows how the incumbent has, in the words of TPM’s Eric Kleefeld, “puffed up his apparent lead” with “brazenly frivolous attempts to get votes for Al Franken thrown out.” He cites a truly cringeworthy Coleman challenge, one that earned the story a spot in today’s Washington Post Blunder Box and a post on Boing Boing, the world’s top blog. Coleman sought to nix a Franken vote because one voter had written on his or her ballot:

Thank you for counting my vote!

I guess desperate times call for desperate measures: Coleman leads by just two votes and now Franken is projected to win.