How many more absentees? I keep hearing conflicting reports on the number of outstanding absentee ballots.
“How many more absentees? I keep hearing conflicting reports on the number of outstanding absentee ballots.”
That’s the $64,000 question. Supposedly 8700 were counted today. I think they’ve counted others before and I’m not convinced that there are many outstanding - despite the article I posted above that quotes the AK elections official Gail so and so. Very frustrating that we’re not getting better information - but what do we expect from the propagandists?
After reading multiple articles about this, here is the best I can figure.
The “40,000” absentees were ballots already counted previously, now they just went through to pull all the write-ins and count those.
They counted a large number of absentees today in the 38th, 39th, and 40th districts. These all went heavily on election day for Murkowski, and went heavily for her in absentees. Instead of Joe picking up 1,000 votes today, it was actually Murkowski who picked up votes.
The outstanding military votes are between 600-1000. Even assuming 1,000 show up by the 17th, they’ll still split between Miller/Murkowski and a few McAdams. Joe would be lucky to pick up more than a couple hundred votes there.
It appears as though in uncontested votes, Murkowski is behind by about 5,000. There are about 10,000 write-ins left to be counted. If 90% go uncontested to her, she’ll end up ahead just in uncontested votes by about 3,000-4,000.
Very grim for Joe after today.