"Some Miller votes won't count
In another boon for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, write-in ballots cast for Republican candidate Joe Miller won’t count toward his total vote count. Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, who oversees elections, told the Associated Press that write-in ballots for Miller will be tossed out.
The write-in ballots are leading in the Alaska race with 41 percent of the vote. Miller has only 34 percent of the vote; Democrat Scott McAdams has 24 percent.
The final outcome won’t be known until all the write-ins have been counted, which could take weeks, but Murkowski is confident of her chances."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/senate-races-2010/1110/Some_Miller_votes_wont_count.html
And what the statute says,
Alaska Stat. § 15.15.360. : Alaska Statutes - Section 15.15.360.: Rules for counting ballots.
Excerpted:
"(9) Write-in votes are not invalidated by writing in the name of a candidate whose name is printed on the ballot unless the election board determines, on the basis of other evidence, that the ballot was so marked for the purpose of identifying the ballot."
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/akstatutes/15/15.15./15.15.360.
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The Alaskan Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell is dis-obeying Alaskan law, if he tosses Miller write-in ballots that did not identify the ballot as Miller's, but was intended as only a write-in vote.
I believe that issue has already been resolved.
Miller’s write in votes will be counted.
I’ll try to find the link.
Have they changed that now? Somebody said they thought that had been remedied and write-in votes for Miller would be counted. But then somebody else said that Miller will have problems with that because he’s not on the list of write-in canddates.
I want to look at the statute again.