Bob Collins
Seven people who wrote in candidates swung an election for state representative in Bemidji, Minn.
John Persell, a DFLer, won re-election by four votes in a rematch of a 2016 race in which GOP Rep. Matt Bliss beat Persell.
If only we could see the names of the write-in candidates.
It’s worth noting, by the way, that the famous “Lizard Person” write-in vote in the Norm Coleman-Al Franken Senate election in 2008 came from Bemidji.
