Unfortunately I have not been able to find that information anywhere. But, I do know that they will be counted tommorrow, the 17th. Also, Murkowski does NOT lead Miller.
Miller has 90,458 undisputed votes, Murkowski has 84,563, undisputed votes, plus 7,601 challenged ballots that were counted anyway, and 1,869 that were challenged and not counted. If you subtract that 1,869 she’s down about 180 votes. And we have no idea what’s going to happen with the challenged and counted votes which was done based on ‘intent’ rather than the Alaska law, nor do we know anything about the overseas and military ballots.
We can only speculate. I believe it is because of the Primary results in which Murkowski only got 3.2% or so of absentee ballots to Miller’s 13.5% that the Murkowski machine in the gov decided to look for ‘intent’ because they believe that Miller will get a lot more votes from the Military and since her name wasn’t on that ballot she probably won’t get many, if any at all! I also believe that this is the ‘reason’ behind the early count. This count was not supposed to start until 8 days after it did, that meant that the military ballots would have been in already since the count began on the 9th and 8 days means the 17th would have been the starting date, the date Military ballots and overseas ballots are due back!
This whole process has been Frustrating since no information is available on total military/overseas ballots sent out!
You are correct that information on the entire process has been hard to come by. I know the Divisions of Elections knows the number but like you I've not been able to find it anywhere. They certified to the Feds that they would meet the deadline of Sept 18, 2010 for the mailing of the UOCAVA ballots when they were asking to be removed from the lawsuit brought on by the Feds.
I hope you are right and Joe's lawyers really jump on top of this.