Posted on 11/16/2010 6:52:07 PM PST by rhema
Today's review of write-in ballots ended with Sen. Lisa Murkowski enjoying an apparently insurmountable 10,420-vote lead over Joe Miller.
Murkowski also now has collected more votes that went unchallenged by Miller ballot observers than Miller's total vote count. That makes it appear as though Miller's lawsuit to seeking to toss out misspelled votes is irrelevant, since there aren't enough of those for him to win.
The Division of Elections has now counted a total of 100,868 votes for Murkowski. Miller has 90,448.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Unfortunately, it looks like the conservative candidate has somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm amazed that 92,715 Alaskans could spell "Murkowski" correctly, even with it written out in front of them. That could not happen in New Jersey.
The 18 states allowing for recall are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Yes, they counted for her and the jokers who didn’t vote for Miller but wrote in fake names gave her their vote, I call that a stupid voter!
Was she on the ballot?
LOL
I fear that many FReepers will twist your words "electable Conservatives" into "liberal Republicans"...and then attack you based on the straw man they have built.
Planks in their eyes, many FReepers will complain and whine about "sore losers" running and winning a plurality or majority. Many will think that somehow a win in a primary translates to a win in the general, when we look at a race like Christine O'Donnell's and realize that she got only a little more than half of the Republican primary votes--and Republicans are less than a third of the voters in Delaware.
[In fact, I bet many don't realize that the more people get to know Christine O'Donnell ($4 million later!), the more they realized how dishonest and nutty she is--and she got even fewer votes than the last time she ran -- when few people here had heard of her!]
The Ostrich Brigade would love us to stick our heads in the sand and not learn from this, just like they did in 2004--which led to 2006--and 2006--which led to 2008. Many want those who spout conservative lines to remain unquestioned, yielding us loss after loss because the general-election voter doesn't cover his eyes so easily.
I suspect that the RATS organized a write-in campaign for the Cow to prevent Joe from winning. They knew their candidate was a total loss, anyway.
I received an e-mail from Joe Miller this morning.
Lisa Murkowski and her friends in the media has misled you. They want you to believe that Joe has lost this election. Below, we dismantle 5 common myths going around:
MYTH 1: Joe Miller is forcing the state of Alaska to count ballots.
Lisa Murkowski is forcing the count in Alaska – by ignoring the primary process (after
promising to stand by the results) and conducting a write-in campaign costing millions of dollars, Lisa ensured a drawn-out counting process would be
required to determine a victor.
MYTH 2: Lisa Murkowski is
beating Joe Miller
After 7 days of write-in ballot
counting, Republican nominee Joe Miller still leads incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the uncontested write-in ballot count. As of Monday night, nearly all
write-in votes have been counted. Joe Miller has 90,448 uncontested votes and Murkowski only has 84.563. If current trends hold, Miller and
Murkowski will likely end up in a dead heat in the uncontested ballot count.
MYTH 3: Joe Miller is indiscriminately throwing out ballots
By law, Alaska statute mandates that the candidates name be spelled correctly. Joe Miller is challenging ballots based on that statute. As a strong believer in the rule of law and constitutional values, Joe believes in this high standard of proof required for write-in ballots to be considered.
Given that the counting process alone has cost the state significant time and resources, a strict interpretation of ballots is necessary to ensure election results are determined in a fair and timely manner. This is crucial for Alaskans to receive proper congressional representation.
MYTH 4: The law leaves it up to ballot counters to determine what ballots are legitimate
Lisa Murkowski’s campaign has spent considerable funds attempting to ensure that
her name is properly spelled on the write-in ballots, proving that she anticipated and prepared for a strict interpretation of law. The law
allows no room for personal interpretation. You spell it correctly, or you don’t.
MYTH 5: There are no reports of fraud or voting irregularities
The Joe Miller campaign has documented numerous instances of voting irregularities.
While nothing can be done about these cases now that the election has already been held, the Joe Miller campaign believes that these cases prove why it is all the more necessary to ensure that there is strict interpretation on the ballot counting process.
>> Miller, Angle, O’Donnell, and Buck all going down to defeat - in a tidal wave year for Republicans. <<
Just goes to show that “candidate quality” matters a lot. Maybe no conservative could have won in Delaware. But in the other three states, solid conservatives could and should have won — if they didn’t carry the sort of baggage that characterized Miller, Angle and Buck.
But, but, but...I thought everyone is a hard-right conservative, and there are just a few bleeding-heart liberals and mushy moderates...! Do you mean to say that not everyone in America is rushing to the right?
Wow...imagine that. We might actually have to get off our butts and convince our fellow Americans that we have the right answers. Instead of building personality cults, we might have to focus on issues. Instead of fighting for offices, we might have to fight for the hearts and minds of voters.
Nah..too much work. Let's just go back to whining and claiming it's all voter fraud. </sarc>
(socialism_stinX and drubyfive, thank you for giving me hope that some conservatives still get it. :-)
>> If he concedes then no one will send him money. <<
Tut, tut. Your cynicism is very unbecoming!
Modern era?
Heck, it didn't happen at all until William F. Knowland in 1946 (with the blank ballot) and Strom Thurmond in 1954 (opposed but not on the ballot).
But yeah, since then...nope. :-)
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/10GENR/
Among undisputed votes the murky write-in sen. leads by 2,267 votes. Looks extremely unlikely for Joe Miller to move forward unless his camp really does believe that they have proof of fraud (fake votes.) If the court rules they can look at the registers by district and find major discrepancies, I say they move forward with their challenge.
On a sobering note for the murky sen. from AK, she won a massive 38.15% of the total undisputed vote to Joe Millers 37.2%, and even with all her crazy FU Murkowski votes counted, a massive 40.2% MANDATE (I say it mockingly) from the AK voters.
Murky, if this is upheld is now dependent on the RAT crossover vote, the unions, tribes and socialists.
Murky is taking her ‘mandate’ and using it straightaway, as if she’s won some presidential election - to blast Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin - and yes, the entirety of the Tea Party efforts.
Charming.
Lisa Liar wins by a massive 1 point over Joe Miller - if indeed Miller decides not to continue to challenge all the oddities that led to this point.
Wow murky - it was a landslide - fool.
The United States Constitution, which actually contains the conditions and qualifications for holding a seat in the United States Senate, contains no provision for Congressional recall elections.
The United States Supreme Court held in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), that "In light of the Framers' evident concern that States would try to undermine the National Government, they could not have intended States to have the power to set qualifications." The court also noted that the framers of the Constitution decided to "reject a proposal allowing for States to recall their own representatives, see 1 Farrand 20, 217..."
“As soon as she is sworn in lets start a recall!”
Love it. We’ll swear her in all right...;)
“Ton = ten thousand. I thought the vote was a lot closer, like around 2000.”
The murky’s lead is 2267 when comparing undisputed votes. But who knows as the state was pitching for her the whole time, and they haven’t released their registries (Miller’s camp has sued to see them.)
“No one has answered my question about ..if there are 30,000 military ballets outstanding.........I am ALSO confused”
There were only 13,000+ military ballots *issued* for the 2008 and not nearly that many were returned. There were fewer issued in this mid-term, and fewer returned undoubtedly. The yet to be counted military ballots - according the *state* is around 600 to 700.
But the press, and quotes from the state on all these matters has been as murky, as murky’s campaign and I’ve been following dozens of articles and the actual counts closely for the past two weeks.
Believe me your confusion and frustration is shared by many including me.
There is a lot of blame to go around on this one.
Please give it any name you like but it is SOP for politicians and I see no difference this time around.
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