At 12:45 a.m. Alaska time, Lisa Murkowski seems well-positioned to win re-election as a write-in candidate. The Alaska Elections Division reports write-in votes comprise 40.18% of the total for U.S. Senate. Republican nominee Joe Miller has 34.74%; Democratic nominee Scott McAdams has 24.05%; Libertarian nominee Frederick Haase has .53%; two independents together have .50%. UPDATE: as of 9 a.m. Alaska time on November 3, the figures are: write-in 41.00%; Miller 34.20%; McAdams 23.74%; Haase .54%; the two independent candidates .52%.
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Edited By Richard Winger
How many zillions of trials about the *intent* of each voter who did NOT spell the L.M. name *exactly* ???
See Const. — gerrymander Senate as judge of the elections of its own gerrymander members.
Does anyone have a photo of Miller’s face when he started seeing the results come in? Priceless.
It’s a good thing this didn’t happen in Pennsylvania or the wrong lizard might have gotten elected.
Write-in ballots will travel by railroad to Anchorage this Sunday, November 7, 2010. The write-in ballots which will start being counted on November 10, 2010 will
leave Fairbanks and Wasilla this Sunday on the southbound Aurora train. Ballots from Nome will be flying to Anchorage tomorrow to meet up with the ballots
on Sunday. There will be an armed guard on the Aurora train seated in the baggaqe car with the dogs and ballots in chests.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg