...when election officials will begin counting thousands of absentee ballots -- as a key day in their U.S. Senate race. After about 5,000 write-in ballots were counted Sunday, Murkowski kept up her success rate of winning about 89 percent of the write-in votes outright, plus an additional 8 percent of write-in votes that were challenged but still counted for the senator anyway. However, officials still have to count about 40,000 absentee ballots this week, according to the Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai. That figure includes several thousand absentee ballots with write-in votes that have not been counted yet.
Sunken, you may want to know that we’re doubting the veracity of the 40,000 yet to be counted absentees, as both the Miller and Murk camps cite a number greatly lower than that - around 8,800 plus around 1,000 military ballots (see deport’s post #63 above), yet to be counted. We’re not sure why the Politico article and Gail Fenumiai could have this so wrong, but it appears they do - and that’s unfortunate for Joe.