[Windflier]

I don’t see how a write in vote COULD be counted for a candidate if the name is misspelled. If the spelling isn’t right, then that’s not who the voter cast a ballot for. Simple as that.

Per Alaskan electoral law, a write-in vote can't be counted for anyone, except that person whose name is written on the ballot. Period. End of story. There's nothing in their law that allows for a subjective analysis of a voter's "intent".

If it doesn't exactly spell MURKOWSKI, she can't take the vote. That's how their law is written.

[freespirited]

So now it comes down to whether we get a court like the one that ok’d Lautenberg after the Toricelli implosion?