What do you all make of this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2624667/posts?page=15#15
Sundayjack:
“This is going to sound crazy, but I’d like to hear from someone in the military who voted in Alaska to see what the ballot looked like. My brother, stationed last in Alaska, but now serving in Iraq, voted by Alaska military ballot. He told me he voted for Murkowski. When I joked about spelling her name right, he said that he didn’t have to write it out at all. He said it was printed on the ballot. I asked questions every which way to make sure he knew what he was talking about - that it was the general election and not the primary, etc. He was sure. He’s a doctor in the army medical corps, so he’s not a stupid guy. I mean, aside from the Murkowski vote, and all.
Thoughts?
Crazy?”
Sundayjack - did you confirm this anymore? I mean as you suggest, murk’s name would have been on the primary ballot. What’s going on here?
Military ballots constitute a ‘second wave’ of ballots in AK, although I’m not sure if they’re already counting all military ballots currently in hand, or will wait to count them all at once after 11/17:
See this on the top left hand caption here:
http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/nation-world-news/write-in-ballot-count-begins-in-alaska-senate-race-999615.html?cxtype=rss_nation-world
“Tuesday’s count comes a week after the election and marks the first wave of absentee ballots to be calculated; those from overseas and military addresses aren’t due until Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)”