I don’t think there was any change even though Miller campaign tweeted that the start had been moved up to Friday but later retracted the claim.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska election has disputed claims made Friday by the Joe Miller campaign in the U.S. Senate race.
Miller tweeted that counting of absentee votes had been moved up to Friday. But Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said that wasn’t true.
She said the absentee count will begin Tuesday - a week after the election, in keeping with standard protocol.
Miller’s campaign later corrected that statement, but then claimed the state had started the pre-count process of verifying absentee ballots without notice on its calendar or notifying the campaign.
Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Alaska election official disputes Miller camp tweet
Here’s the link on that story.
http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/10182814/article-Alaska-election-official-disputes-Miller-camp-tweet-?
Clearly the state using a couple of old court cases is doing whatever they want in this write-in count - despite really clear AK election law. The above story only confirms that they do not truly respect the Miller candidacy.
“Miller’s campaign later corrected that statement, but then claimed the state had started the pre-count process of verifying absentee ballots without notice on its calendar or notifying the campaign.”
This part was never disputed by the state, right? That, this:
http://www.ktva.com/ci_16606303
“Murkowski and state officials are on the same side”
And the fact that the state is using an approach that clearly favors murk over clearly written AK election law says a LOT.