Come on....I can see disputing hang chads....but even a Dem knows who they meant.
thanks for posting
Did anybody vote for a MOOSE-KOW-SKI?...........
I am 100% for Miller here, but if the law of the land is intent of the voter, it is pretty clear they intended their vote to go to the Senator. I personally would want as much scrutiny as possible to help Miller, but it kind of is what it is. Miller screwed up with a sloppy campaign and the write-in campaign was well executed.
I thought I read that it was part of Alaskan election law that voter intent is not enough - the name MUST be spelled correctly or it is discounted. You can bet if this was a Republican write in, the law would be used to the max.
Interesting that the Rat party is there to observe? We all know who their dog in this race is.
I wonder what % of the ballots are not for the Murks?
First of all....Miller is one up just because he’s named after a beer....
We need more than 10% of the write-ins to be disqualified. We need at least 20% of the write-ins to be disqualified or for someone other than Lisa. If she gets 80% of the total write-in vote, OR LESS, she loses.
Spelling and following directions should be requirements for voting.
Now how did that happen?(heh heh)
Law says it has to be spelled right? HA! You just know the judges will swat that clean away. “The law notwithstanding, the voter’s intent is clear!”
Laws — once known and respected as “will of the people” are now just so many clay pigeons for black-robed tyrants.
No matter which way it cuts, I can see requiring the exact spelling of a write in candidate, as a reasonable principle of law.
I believe that’s why she won the right to create a list of write in candidates, so people could see and spell her name correctly, as required.
Creating such a list itself is rather counter intuitive to the whole idea of a “write in” candidate.
Finally, an upside to the public schools.
Its live on channel 7040 Dishnetwork as well. Not much visually, looks just like a live camera, good music though.
Go MyKowKnees!
Just checked the Anchorage Alaska phone directory:
3 Murkowsky’s (including Lisa A.)
3 Murkowski’s (including Lisa A., same addy as above))
intersting..............
The only miller-rejected ballot that I disagreed with of the ones mentioned so far was the one that said “Lisa, Murkowski”.
I don’t think the punctuation should matter, and even if you decide that adding a comma means the name isn’t “exactly like” the name on the write-in list, there is also the rule about the last name, and since the first name given is Lisa, there is no doubt that this is the lisa they meant, and not some other murkowski.
The article said the election official was counting any spelling if her pronunciation sounded like MUrkoswki.
But to show how absurd that standard is, she rejected MorKowski. That’s a one-letter error, and she was accepting “mer” but not “mor”, but what if people pronounce that differently?
This is why the name should have to be spelled correctly.
It’s still a shame that Miller couldn’t get 40% of the electorate to vote for him.
Jow was just on Fox...saying what most have been saying. Follow the LAW, MurCOWski!!! She knew the law when she threw her hissy fit over losing the primary. SHE decided to be a write-in. KNOWING full well that her name HAD to be spelled correctly, she ran ads explaining this and giving spelling lessons about her name. Plus, she handed out rubber bracelets with her name on it.
(Joe didn’t say all of that...just the part about following the law and how she knew the law when she decided to be a write-in.) lol
“I have been consistent from the beginning in stating that minor misspellings of a candidate’s name will be counted. That continues to be my position today and we are proceeding with the ballot count under that direction,” Campbell said. “We have a number of instances where the Alaska courts have weighed in on this issue in favor of not disenfranchising voters.”
Law??? What law?