I don’t see how a write in vote COULD be counted for a candidate if the name is misspelled. If the spelling isn’t right, then that’s not who the voter cast a ballot for. Simple as that.
What in the hell are they doing up there?
I have a hard enough time spelling my own name right. You can carry a Del Monte can around to get YOU close. People see a “ski” at the end of a name and freeze up.
Well, Murkowski is using her daddy's pet judges to do everything to ignore the laws and to fix the race for the Kow. And Murkowski is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that she doesn't give a tinker's damn about the law.
Are the election officials Democrats. What about the sec of state.
Beltway establishment is in the tank for Murkowski. Plenty of Union support, outside cash and cross-over votes from Dems....not to mention her family name is big in Alaska.
If she wins, I expect her to keep her seniority and current assignments. If the the GOP gets the majority in 2012, Lisa will no doubt get a chairmanship seat.
She is the poster child of what’s wrong with the GOP establishment. If victorious, expect the MSM to say “Oh Noooooo....Sarah is finished!!!!”
Stealing the election! Here is the set of ‘instructions’ about write-in ballots.
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/doc/info/Counting_Write-In_Instructions_2010_FINAL.pdf
Interesting that there is a constant mention of Lisa Murkowski, she gets paragraphs as to ballots for her, but then all the rest of the write-ins get lumped together. Can you say FRAUD, THEFT, Murkowski owns enough people to manipulate the will of the people?
I can’t find the danged law with regard to what it has been for write-ins. There must be a law, but I don’t know how to research that :(
Totally agree....someone writes "Martoski".....how do they really know that the person didn't write mean Frank Martoski? They CAN'T...that's why the rule about exact spelling has to be upheld. Ridiculous.
No, it is based on “voter intent,” which gives liberals the wiggle room they need to win. In 1954, SC counted “Storm Thunder” as “Strom Thurmond.” AK is too liberal for Miller.
Per Alaskan electoral law, a write-in vote can't be counted for anyone, except that person whose name is written on the ballot. Period. End of story. There's nothing in their law that allows for a subjective analysis of a voter's "intent".
If it doesn't exactly spell MURKOWSKI, she can't take the vote. That's how their law is written.
The Murkowski Machine in Alaska will stop at nothing to get its way.