[mdittmar]

cBS News weighs in;)

[xzins]

Joe Miller was not a candidate when Alaska passed the law saying that a write-in ballot must be EXACT.

Why did Alaska not say that “intent of the voter” was the controlling factor? Instead, they insisted that it be “EXACT.”

Why?

[RJL]

Gee, I must have missed the CBS hit piece on the Democrats disenfranchising the military voters by refusing to send out their mail-in ballots on time.

[3niner]

I can sympathize with people who meant to vote a certain way, and want their votes to count accordingly. However, if I were going to vote for a write-in candidate, I would make sure that I knew how to write the name properly, before going to vote.

If people are just too damn lazy to follow the rules, why should they get special consideration?

[A CA Guy]

I hear some voters wrote in Miller and that none of their write in stuff counted as a vote.

[Rome2000]

The degenerate that wrote this garbage is a minor league propgandist for the socialist crooks running the democrat party.

We are coming for them.

[Fred]

Miller ran a lousy campaign.

[M Kehoe]

If cBS is asking this question, then you KNOW someone else is trying to disenfranchise voters.

It's like all democRATs/socialists/liberals/progressives, if they accuse you of something, that means that they are doing it themselves. Rules for Radicals, right 0bama?

5.56mm

[tongass kid]

Joe Miller has admitted to committing fraudulent votes on other peoples computers with out their knowledge. As far as I can tell he is only known and admitted fraudulent voter in this race.

[luvie]

Is Joe Miller Lisa Murkowski Trying to Disenfranchise Alaskans?(CBS News)

There...fixed it!

[AmericanInTokyo]

“BARF ALERTS” are standard practice and courtesy here on FR, when posting something from enemy territory.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t care what people say but it is pathetic that Joe Miller is even in this position against a write in candidate. He had his name typed on the sheet and could not come up with a easy majority. Some were wanting him to run as President....what are people thinking. He should have won this 85-15 percent. This is tragic.

[TheThinker]

Is CBS trying to disenfranchise voters? You betcha!

[BradyLS]

None of my English teachers ever gave me credit for “intent” on spelling.

[montag813]

Joe never had a chance. I said so here 2 weeks before election day when that boneheaded poll-freeping and cover-up incdent came to light. Miller inexplicably tried to get a judge to block the release of that info, instead of just releasing it himself right after the primary so it would have been long forgotten by voting day. So instead it was released just when he could afford it least—and it decimated him. We saw a 22-pt crash in 3 days in our snap poll after the release, and knew then it was done (Lisa’s deft exploitation of loose rules for Natives was too much to overcome in the end). If Miller wants to be viable to challenge Begich for re-election, he should try and end this useless fight quickly.

[Sal]

If the name on a write-in ballot does not exactly match the name of the candidate, they say, it doesn't count.

No CBS news, the LAW says it doesn't.

OTOH What else would anyone expect from the FORGERY STATION? Obviously they have no respect for law or honesty or what's right!

[Sal]

If the name on a write-in ballot does not exactly match the name of the candidate, they say, it doesn't count.

No CBS news, the LAW says it doesn't.

OTOH What else would anyone expect from the FORGERY STATION? Obviously they have no respect for law or honesty or what's right!

[tillacum]

If I lose the primary, I will not contest it..Lisa said. She lost..she got mad because the Alaskans wanted someone, they chose, not one who had been put there by her dad. She gathered everyone who’d helped ole Papa help her ruin the voting laws of Alaska by write-ins and other sheenagans. So now cBS is saying Joe Miller, who was chosen during the primary to be the candidate of choice by the Alaskan Republicans, is trying to disenfranchise Alaskans?

[Hoodat]

Is Joe Miller Trying to Disenfranchise Alaskans?

Let's see what Websters has to say, shall we?

disenfranchise - n. to deprive of the right to vote

It's my understanding that the ballots in question belong to people who actually voted. Thus by definition, these individuals were not disenfranchised. If these individuals have their votes disqualified because they did not follow the rules, then the responsibility falls on them - not Joe Miller. But to say that Miller is denying them the right to vote is ludicrous. C-BS should be ashamed.