Since now voter “intent” is paramount, doesn’t that give Joe a lot of votes when people wrote in his name even though his name is on the ballot as a listed candidate? I thought I heard that these ballots would not be counted. What a complete travesty of justice if true.
Not true. In the decision, the Court noted that write-ins for Miller were counted using the same standards as for Murky. Miller gained 20 votes. And the standards were the SAME as required in Federal law for counting the votes of military personnel submitting absentee ballots. [Citation in the decision.]
Another important part of the decision is that whatever Miller may object to, the burden is on him to show that it would change the election outcome. From the detailed counting tabulations that both sides agreed were accurate, the Court found that no matter if all of Miller’s challenges were accepted, he still would lose.
Contorted legal arguments and faulty reasoning yield to the actual numbers of votes.