What is the status of the election? When will we know who won? or who stole it.
“What is the status of the election? When will we know who won? or who stole it.”
It depends on how the judge rules. First, I expect the judge to rule that ALL ballots must be counted in a similar manner, i.e. that if Murkowski votes are hand counted and the counters are allowed to determine “voter intent”, then ALL ballots are to be counted in the same manner. So far Miller’s ballots have ONLY been counted by machine with the machine throwing out many ballots that may have a partial erasure in one of the bubbles causing it to invalidate the ballot. Other ballots may have been invalidated because the voter didn’t fill out enough of the bubble beside the name. Again, ONLY the ballots with write ins were hand counted and given special consideration. If the judge rules for some reason that you can count some ballots one way and other ballots a different manner, they will quickly be slapped down because the Supreme Court settled this in 2000.
Second, Miller will ask the judge to apply the law as written, i.e. that the bubble must be filled out next to the write in blank and the name of the person they want to vote for must be written AS IT APPEARS on the list of write in candidates. It is less likely that the judges will follow the law because so many are beholding to Murkowski’s family.
If that fails, Miller should appeal on the grounds that the judge is biased because he was placed on the bench by the Kow’s dad.