Posted on 11/09/2010 8:19:32 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
JUNEAU -- GOP nominee Joe Miller is asking a federal judge to keep the state from using discretion in counting write-in ballots in Alaska's hotly contested Senate race.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, comes the day before election officials planned to begin counting write-in ballots that could determine the outcome of the race.
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Military Ballots from overseas will not be counted in Alaska until November 17th.
http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/fate-of-alaska-race-hinges-on-write-in-1033374.html
If we do, then there'd better be protests all over this country. We have got to stop allowing the Democrats and establishment types to subvert the rule of law.
She'll claim she was just helping her supporters so that at least they didn't spell "Kurmowski"
But that's a good point that a large part of Murk's write in campaign has been on spelling her name right even though the Murkowski name has been well known in Alaska politics for 20 years
Thank you, that is perfectly clear.
Wait for the judicial twisting to get it to say what they want. Where is the danged outrage? The alaska voters should be screaming their heads off, no matter for whom they voted.
Then again, too many voters throughout the country are willing to let morals and ethics die at the side of the road as long as they get their way!
Latest count is here http://www.adn.com/3771 If you click the full results link just below this, it will give date and time for the listed results. I think this is the absentee ballots that are showing up here.
The absentee overseas and Military I believe are not counted until 11/17.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I think they wanted to count these ballots ealier than originally, because they want to see how many military or overseas ballots to ‘reject’ so Murkowski will win. This count that is happening now was not supposed to begin before the 12th I believe, that would be Friday, then next Tuesday would be the military, so they couldn’t get enough info on how many military to disenfranchize unless they began this count earlier!
Well, that sucks. I've now heard it both ways.
I believe that Mark Levin asked the Lt. Gov that very question last night, and he indicated that if Joe Miller's name was written in, that it would be counted as a vote for him.
What needs to happen here, is a firm application of existing electoral law - not arbitrary rulings and subjective analysis of voter "intent".
Why would Miller be a hypocrite?
So THAT’S how you got elected!
Of course he sues in Federal Court, since the issue has to due with the Federal constitution as to the ‘manner of voting’ being a State right and governed by the State laws and an official of the state is trying to go around that existing state election law to write her own.
I just listened to the interview, which confirms Miller's name if written in will count. But it still sounds as if "intent" will be at play.
Best solution: Misspelling should be set aside and the votes tallied. Then, if the misspellings, if added into the totals, would make a difference, it goes to court.
“Exactly — and the Lt.Gov kept answering that issue by saying he didn’t want to “disenfranchise” any voters — as if we aren’t all disenfranchised when these people ignore, bend, and shape the law by their whim.”
Murk specifically went out of her way to go into the native villages. It sounds like they’re absolutely going to try to discern intent.
I could see her trying to claim any scrawl, or an “X”, as voter intent for her by saying it’s likely a native vote - and then comes the hollering of disenfranchisement if done otherwise.
Originally the Lt. Gov said it wouldn’t count. The only problem was that the state statute clearly stated it would. There was no getting around it, so he walked that back.
If someone wrote in Miller, it counts.
That is not what the law says. Last name only is acceptable.
The purpose of a printed ballot is to take all subjectivity out of the counting process. That’s why write in names have to be spelled correctly. Subjectivity equals bias in an election.
Rules for elections can’t be changed after the election. There are federal election laws.
Miller has been campaigning that States rights should trump Federal government. Now that he does not like way the State is supporting voter intent he goes to the Federal court suing the State. It is clear that he only believes in States rights when it supports his views. His actions can only leave us wondering what he believes, State vs Federal. Additionally, buy challenging voter intent he his attempting to disenfranchise voters that have trouble with English, are elderly or need help. If he is for all the people of Alaska then he should harm those that need help. tk
he should not harm those that need help
You'd think that having this one solitary function as his only real responsibility in office would compel this guy to be thoroughly familiar with state electoral law, but you'd think wrong. Like politicians on Capitol Hill who have never read the Constitution, this guy thinks its his right to make crap up on the fly.
Your tax dollars at work, folks.
>Mark Levin just caused a major fire storm up there.
Hehe! Thanks fo the recap.
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