Posted on 11/13/2010 11:12:40 PM PST by SeattleBruce
Incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski is closing in on the total number of votes cast for Joe Miller on Election Day. While it's believed the lion's share of votes for write-in candidates will go to Murkowski -- a suspicion the ongoing count has thus far proved -- the ballots must be looked at and assessed to know for sure. But with 84 percent of the more than 98,000 write-in ballots cast on election night already evaluated, Murkowski appears to be within striking distance of a win.
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But -- and there are always "buts" -- there are still thousands other votes yet to be tallied (at least 8,800 absentee votes plus more to be tallied from overseas) which could skew in Miller's favor, and if the difference between Miller and Murkowski is 1,246 or fewer votes -- 0.5 percent of all votes cast -- the election outcome will be close enough to trigger a state-funded recount. Not to mention Miller has launched a series of legal questions about whether less-than-perfect votes -- those with misspellings -- should count. He says no, Murkwoski says yes, and the court fight could become much higher stakes if it is challenged ballots on which the election will be decided. Also, more recently Miller has lodged allegations of possible fraud, and he's seeking voter registries to verify that the number of votes from certain areas didn't exceed the number of legally registered voters and to assess whether voters filled out their own ballots.
(Excerpt) Read more at alaskadispatch.com ...
“The Deadline for the Overseas Military Ballots is November 17th. They will be counted then.”
Are you sure some of them, even most of them, haven’t already been counted? That’s what we’ve been wondering for the past several days.
“If the uncounted 8,800 Absentee Ballots and the Overseas Ballots that will be counted November 17th, together total 15,000. I’m predicting that Joe Miller will win this thing.”
I sure hope your numbers are right. Are the military ballots counted separately from the other absentee ballots?
If you ask me, they’re also delaying counting those votes, hoping the murk can ‘pull in front’ of Joe Miller - with the psychological and media implications of that. It’s shameless at the moment. Brazen.
Not 100% sure, but 75% sure.
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