[Mr. K]

Murkowski ASKED FOR and RECEIVED permission to distribute a list of write-in candidates to voters, so that they could be sure to spell her name correctly.

So... my only conclusion would then be that anyone who still got it wrong was INTENTIONAL in not voting correctly for her.

[SeattleBruce]

“So... my only conclusion would then be that anyone who still got it wrong was INTENTIONAL in not voting correctly for her.”

Love that - good work!

[newzjunkey]

We had a problem like that in a mayoral election a few years back in San Diego. The late entering Democrat staged a write-in campaign and went to federal court to try to win. One of the things which ultimately did her in was the scale and effort of her campaign to make sure bubbles were filled and names were spelled correctly. On the campaign trail she was following the law but when she lost she argued "voter intent" in the courts. SCOTUS has said bubbles need to be filled in as recently as, I think, 2007.

The idea there being that voters writing in a name is little different than having the name pre-printed on the ballot: the vote itself is the marking of the bubble (or whatever the format is)

I personally can appreciating wanting to give a letter or two margin of error but the law is the law when it comes to elections. You can't accept "Lisa" or "Lisa M." here anyway as there was another Lisa M. (surname forgotten) as a write-in.