Over the weekend, Al Franken’s lead over Norm Coleman jumped to 225 votes after officials counted about 1,000 absentee ballots that had been wrongly rejected due to clerical errors. This afternoon, the Minnesota canvassing board certified that Franken is the winner. But, as the St. Paul Pioneer Press explained in an editorial last week–much to the chagrin of Senate Democrats like Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Amy Klobuchar–this doesn’t mean the race is over:

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