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Posted on 11/10/2010 11:32:51 AM PST by rumrunner
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To: zebrahead
How do elections officials know that the voter didn’t intend to vote for an old family friend named Herbert Mercowski, but didn’t realize the write-in vote had to be for someone on the official list of write-in names (even though posting such a list inside the polling place violates Alaska elections law)?
To: Jrabbit
Plus, she handed out rubber bracelets with her name on it.
Pens with her name on it, too.
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:13:24 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: ilgipper
Alaska Law is very very specific, the name MUST be spelled correctly and the law says no exceptions.
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:22:06 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: zebrahead
if we toss out the law then those miller write in votes should count too.
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:23:00 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
So where are we? Between my job, an emergency cabin remodeling project I can’t keep up. Arrgh.
Did Joe get the vote count stopped?
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:30:44 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: longtermmemmory; no dems; dennisw; hattend; Revel; Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:34:08 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: txhurl
so the lesson is to run a sham candidate with a name which is spelled close to the write in candidate smith vs smyth.
147
posted on
11/10/2010 3:39:31 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: ilgipper
Well I don’t see how if you can’t spell it why your vote should count.
I’d say this if people wrote in Miler too.
To: butterdezillion
I know how you feel. I have never been able to get the answer to that question either. He is on that list and yet he is not on “the list”.
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posted on
11/10/2010 3:44:53 PM PST
by
Revel
To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
Some people misspelled her name intentionally because they hate her guts.
Their intent is not to vote for her.
If that's the case, it's pretty retarded, since it's clear that Miller is going to need every single vote he can get. From what I heard a few minutes ago, out of 7,000 or so write-in ballots, 88% were correctly spelled Murkowski, with another 6-7% being contested. That's a good enough sample to say that Miller is in big trouble.
A deliberately misspelled ballot may not count for her, but it's damn sure not going to count for Miller. Anybody dumb enough to misspell her name as a protest is not doing Miller any favors.
To: longtermmemmory; proudpapa
No, apparently we’ve coalesced on phonetics now.
There have been questions from the ballot observers about the criteria Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai is using to rule on the Miller campaign challenges of Murkowski ballots.
Heres what Fenumiai told me:
If I can pronounce the name by the way its spelled, thats the standard Im using.
Read more: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/154249#ixzz14vXiGwbR
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posted on
11/10/2010 4:34:15 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: txhurl
Good Lord! Help us please! Let’s hope she doesn’t have a lisp and isn’t dyslexic.
We have totally lost the rule of law. This is going to end up in court; there’s no way it can’t, when the rule of law is being totally destroyed.
We need to find somebody who misspelled Murkowski’s name because they didn’t like any of the candidates - a protest vote - and have them sue because by having their vote count for Murkowski they were DISENFRANCHISED! Throw it back in the judicial faces.
Murkowski has made it abundantly clear that her intent all along has been to disenfranchise the primary voters who chose Miller over her.
To: butterdezillion
This is going to end up in SCOTUS. I have to go hunt for the supporting data, statues, laws and links on FR within the last couple days.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:11:34 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: butterdezillion; txhurl
Around 90% of the write-in ballots have been spelled properly so far, with around 7,600 ballots counted. If that holds, with the addition to the mail-ins, Murkowski has it in the bag even if the misspellings are tossed out. It won't end up in court because she can win without the misspellings.
As for anybody protesting by misspelling her name, that's just dumb - Miller needs every single vote he can get, and a misspelled Murkowski protest vote is not a vote for Miller.
To: af_vet_rr
I wouldn’t expect Miller voters to protest by spelling Murkowski’s name wrong. I would expect people who are disgusted with ALL the candidates - and that could be a lot of people.
But the bigger issue here is the rule of law. And that is what we can’t afford to lose. Do you think that is piddly?
To: af_vet_rr
If his Absentee vote total (out of the 31,000 Absentee Ballots) ADDED TO HIS 67,500 VOTES exceeds the 81,000 uncounted write-in ballots, then its over.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:40:48 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: Onelifetogive
Yeah, typing ahead of my brain ...
157
posted on
11/10/2010 5:51:39 PM PST
by
Kozak
("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
To: Fundamentally Fair
hahahahaaaa youre right...screw them...they can jump into the ocean....
158
posted on
11/10/2010 7:03:06 PM PST
by
nikos1121
(Praying for the big -20 today all the way to Nov 2nd)
To: txhurl
If his Absentee vote total (out of the 31,000 Absentee Ballots) ADDED TO HIS 67,500 VOTES exceeds the 81,000 uncounted write-in ballots, then its over.
A lot of those are from rural and Native areas, which lean heavily left. You can guess who they are going to vote for.
To: txhurl
I’m thinking that after the Absentee ballots were counted, there were like 91,000 Write-in Ballots total; not 81,000.
If I’m wrong, please tell me.
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posted on
11/10/2010 10:21:58 PM PST
by
no dems
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