With just under 66 percent of ballots having gotten a second look, the statewide recount resumes this morning after a Sunday off — and Sen. Norm Coleman is 669 votes down from where this whole thing started on Nov. 5. In this edition of Recount Roundup, a look at the man behind the “Lizard People” ballot, a write-in haiku of sorts, and the hypothesis that right-brain left-wingers may yet swing this thing for Al Franken.

Flaky Dems may aid Franken: The Canvassing Board’s judgement, posits Politico, could work to Al Franken’s favor, a belief best exemplified by this quote from election attorney Robert Hentjes: “Democrats are [thought to be] more creative, free-spirited, so the idea is they’re more likely to make a mistake that the optical scan won’t pick up. But when they recount the hard copy, those votes will be counted for Franken. If you talk to Republicans, they say it will be Franken’s advantage, because Democrats are stupid and will screw up ballots more often.”

A (specific) prediction: Nate Silver of FiverThirtyEight.com calculates that Al Franken will win — by 27 votes.

Write-in haiku? The Star Tribune finds a ballot filled out with write-ins to send an “almost poetic” message to election officials:

You need to
make voting
easier to do
This is
ridiculous
Enough with the
political ads
This is
what happens
when you
bombard me
with them
Al Franken and
Norm Coleman
are so annoying
they’re repugnant
From now on
I’ll give up
my right
to vote
if I get
beat down with
political ads
Advertise that
Minnesota
I’d
rather
have
Nick
DiPalo
for
President
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha

He is the Lizard king: Lucas Davenport, a 25-year-old contractor in Bemidji, has come forward claiming to be the voter who wrote in “Lizard People” on a now-infamous Beltrami County ballot. He provided handwriting samples to prove it — and sounds convincing enough. While the write-in has riled many who think a gag vote in a close election isn’t cool, he’s nonplussed: “Because you don’t have to vote. It’s not mandatory. And I think that I have the right to vote for anybody I wish, even if it’s a made up candidate or even myself, if I wanted to write that in… If I get my 15 minutes, I get my 15 minutes, and if not, I’ll have some good running gags for the rest of my life,” he said.

Listen to Davenport interviewed this morning on MPR: