What's happening in the Land of 10,000 ballots?

The greatest election season EVER still isn't over. We here in Minnesota (except for sad Randy Wittman) are all eagerly anticipating who will win litigate his way into the Senate. The Star Tribune's count has Norm Coleman ahead of Al Franken by 192 votes, but this is not counting the thousands of ballots that have been challenged by both sides. According to the AP, of the ballots that can be assigned to either Coleman or Franken (anything not for Dean Barkley or Lizard People) Franken has a net gain of 200, which would give him a potential win by EIGHT votes. This is far from final, as that doesn't even include the absentee ballots (though those are believed to favor Franken as well.)

What does this all mean? That we won't know anything until the fate of these challenged ballots is decided in a state meeting that begins tomorrow and will probably end never. Whoever wins is sure to not win reelection in 2014.