This makes no sense with the person who said that they are keeping aside and not counting yet the ones not spelled right. Is Fenumiai using that criteria to determine which ones get set aside to be challenged, or to determine which get counted?
They are sorting the write-ins into multiple piles. The first is the ones that are clearly not for murkowski. The others are for supposed “murkowski” votes.
One is ballots that everybody believes are good for Murkowski. According to the report, 89% of the ballots so far fall into this category. And if you do the math, if that continues, Miller will lose even if a court accepts all of his challenges.
The next are ballots challenged by miller. Challenges are judged by a local official, who so far has been rejecting most of his challenges based on her “pronouncing the name” rule — a rule that seems rediculous on it’s face, and hopefully one that the court will reject as a matter of principle.
One is a pile that everybody agrees were not done well enough to know for sure, but that number is apparently only about 1% of the total.
They are further sorted into either accepted or rejected challenges. Apparently, the local election official has rejected most of the challenges, so they are in the “counted but challenged” bucket.
There are also two buckets for murkowski challenges.
The nice thing is that the courts will be able to handle the challenges and eliminate or accept ballots from the different piles.