The still-undecided senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken is currently being recounted, but this heated race has run into another snafu: Voting machines used throughout Minnesota to tally ballots for this race recently failed accuracy tests. Whoops.

Election officials in Michigan have contested the integrity of their ES&S M-100 optical-scan machines, which have been shown to inaccurately count ballots. These are the same machines used throughout Minnesota to tally a race that is essentially a dead heat. This could cause some major problems in determining the winner of this race.

I myself have never trusted voting machines. Technology has traditionally been deceitful and held nothing but fear and disgust for the human race, so why should we trust it to determine our elections? In the Threat Level article, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says he trusts the machines over a human count... could he be one of them???

Neither Coleman's nor Franken's camp has anything to say about this yet, but somehow I'll bet Franken might have some comment about it if the recount turns out in Coleman's favor. We'll see what happens, but it seems this tight race is all but over.