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RED ALERT: Emergency in Alaska

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 26th, 2010 at 05:00 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Joe Miller has won the GOP nomiation for the United States Senate in Alaska. Looking at where the absentee ballots are coming from, etc., Murkowski is not going to be able to make it up. Sources close to Miller, Palin, and external media sources all seem to think Murkowski can’t make up the difference.

But there is a problem.

The absentee ballots will not be counted for a week or so. Already there are rumors of “found” ballots. Murkowski is refusing to go away quietly, even allowing her campaign to float the idea of a third party bid or write-in candidacy.

Joe Miller needs a quick infusion of cash to his campaign to pay for a ballot integrity program. Tea Party activists need to get to Alaska immediately to help secure the process and make sure Murkowski cannot steal the election.

And once all of that is done, Alaska media sources are reporting the Democrats may yank the winner of their contest and put in former Governor Tony Knowles, who they think will have a stronger shot at Miller.

Give Joe Miller what you can ASAP.

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  • apen

    I figured out that here in NY where the crooked dems tax like it is an axe (sicle) there can be a bright side. Just for instance lets say I quit smoking like they want. I smoke 1 pack a day @ $ ten/ pack. That’s 3,650.00/yr X 4 =$14,600.00. If I want to get out from under their grip I could split that up between every legitimate candidate for office. Nice chunk eh? Now lets say there was a way to chart my donations or pledge them in such a way I don’t need to make some 600 odd donations to do that. Like a single donate button and a plan. And that is why I am spending more time reading about candidates than I’d really prefer as there is more than enough to keep me busy just looking after Schumers antics and Paterson playing a conservative in front of the most union fed, corrupt, unrealistic state congress in the nation.

    Actually, I might just quit smoking and move to AZ or Texas where I have no heat bill, smooth roads and just as good hunting.

  • fpete13527

    I support Joe 100%. Murkowski makes me want to vomit every time I think about her. Remember, Murkowski is among the top contenders for queen progressive Republican right under the sisters from Maine.

    I understand there are lots of issues that Alaska has to deal with across the board in their leadership when Miller becomes Senator. Alaska isnt alone in that problem. Progressive Dems and progressive R’s have created that mess and it won’t be easily undone…anywhere.

    I true patriot though can bridge many gaps though to fix those messes. Miller is that kind of patriot.

    PS
    Election system in Alaska needs work. Ballots need to be counted IMMEDIATELY after an election…….we’ve seen what ACORN or RINO’s can do to abuse the system in the past. Can’t let that happen any more.

  • shorty

    “NICE” thought!!! I just might thr the same!! Although I’m NOT paying $10/pack!

  • rdm42

    What the heck is the point of even HAVING a primary if you can just decide to insert someone else after its over?

  • minncon

    Take it from a Minnesota conservative who, along with more than a million other voters, watched helplessly as their votes were stolen post-election… IT CAN HAPPEN!

    Joe Miller DOES need our support, cause D.C. incumbents like Murkowski are attached to deep pockets which they can use to fight off all challengers.

  • bannor

    some money his way, it’s not much but all those little donations add up. Anyone find it funny that the only times RINOs put up a fight is when the voters come between them and their meal ticket?

  • rdelbov

    people putting 100 dollars into house /senate races this year–above and beyond what they did in 2006/2008 can make a huge difference.

    like minded people doing what you do makes the difference.

    Go Joe Miller

  • greiner

    my $10. As a Bartlett grad liveing int eh “lower 48″ I really want this win!

  • rdelbov

    what gives with the idea of the Liberterian party giving up their spot on the ballot to Murkowski? I cannot think of anybody less Liberterian then Lisa M.

  • Scope

    will just go quietly into the night. The D candidates campaigned, did fundraising, and one of the candidates won in a taxpayer funded primary. I can;t immagine anyone just sitting back, and saying OK, I’m not a good enough candidate.

    I imagine the absentee ballots had to be in by election day. There really is no reason to not count them immediately, unless of course the wrong person wins the primary, for either party. Great way to figure out how many votes your guy needs to find in those ballots. Obviously Palin didn’t completely succeed in disbursing the Corrupt Bastages Club, or the Good Ole Boys.

  • SIConservative

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41467_Page2.html#ixzz0xfrkDx4v

  • joecollins

    Yanking the nominated candidate after the primary? Ouch!! That will make excellent fodder for election ads.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com Veronica
  • chabsentia

    I would not be suprised by anything in Alaska. Just look at the situation where they put Senator Stevens on trial until the election was over and he had narrowly lost and then it was found out that Prosecutors had pulled some dirty tricks. Too late. Think about the fact that if Stevens had been re-elected that he might have not been on that Fishing trip and wouldnt have been on the plane that crashed.

    Waiting until August 31st until the absentee ballots are counted and then not announcing the result until the sixth of September leaves a lot of time to cook the books if so desired.

  • joecollins

    An easy link is here: http://joemiller.us/index.php

    A growing trend among ousted RINO politicians is to scream like a stuck pig and race for liberal cover. Look at Charlie Crist, Arlen Spector, Dede Scuzzy, . . .

  • acat

    Torricelli replaced by Lautenberg in New Jersey a couple years back.

    The current debacle in Illinois over the Lt. Gov candidate on the Dem side – something about steroid abuse and beating his girlfriend.

    Admittedly, the South Carolina example is somewhat extreme, but it’s not like anyone with a D after their name is going to win there anyway, so it’s a good opportunity for the Dems to at least look like they play by the rules….

    Mew

  • swami7774

    Where do they think they are–New Jersey?

  • http://ruminationsaspirations.blogspot.com jonbingham

    I am liking the 51/49 results we have been getting this cycle
    UT: Lee/Bridgewater
    CO: Buck/Norton
    AK: Miller/Murkowski – Let’s preserve this one.
    Much better than 2004′s 49/51 of Toomey/Specter…

  • tngal

    The Colorado governor mess isn’t much better. Maes and Hickenhoozits are neck and neck until you throw in Tancredo. And politicians wonder why ordinary citizens don’t trust those in government – at any level.

  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    …not Chicago.

    Let’s see now, conservative Republicans graciously concede to “moderates” even in close races; “moderate” Republicans bolt to “independents” or attack the winners, or bleed the winner dry with recounts that takes away money and time for the general election.

    Looks like Lisa has turned politics into a personal grudge match, and she and her establishment buddies are willing to destroy the Republican party so long as they think they will control the rubble.

    Which side are the team players, and which aspire to Louis XIV with their sense of entitlement? But they’re going to discover that they’re Louis XVI, not XIV.

    And then moderates have the cheek to pronounce that conservatives can’t win.

    But the establishment forgets that historically “let them eat cake” will convert to tumbrils if they continue in their ways. Or for that matter, the ignore the fate of the Northern kingdom in Old Testament times when they failed to heed the prophets.

  • bannor

    the Libertarian party be the Dems best group of useful idiots. Look at their history of getting involved in races to shave off just enough votes to get the opposite of what they supposedly believe in elected. I think the party motto is “We’re one catastrophic defeat away from total victory!”

  • acat

    Y’know those mythical smoke-filled rooms where the candidates were chosen?

    I know a guy who knows a guy (hey, it’s Chicago) whose grandfather was in the smoke-filled room that produced the original Daley.

    Mew

  • raider

    stolen election from Rossi in WA are the two most disgusting examples of Democrat Party post-election fraud that I have seen in recent years. The words “watched helplessly” described how conservatives across the nation were feeling during the Franken-Coleman recount.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com Veronica

    they just spell it a different way: S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M.

    They alternate it with what they find in their lefty thesaurii: Communism.

  • acat

    and in both cases, IIRC, the Repub candidate tried to “play nice” with the count and recount – and ended up getting screwed in the end.

    Rule # 1, Repubs. If it’s close, *they will fight dirty*

    Mew

  • partyof1

    Maybe we’re selling the Dems short though. It’s not like they would accept convicted felons voting or anything like that.

  • earlgrey
  • trapperjohn

    I know some of the people counting. They will be counting the first batch tomorrow. Supposedly there will be Miller supporters and Murkowski supporters looking at each ballot. They both have to agree on that ballot before it is counted.

    We will see.

  • bk

    No, I’m not kidding.

    Sean Cairncross, the general counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is headed to Alaska at the request of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) to help provide guidance to the GOP incumbent who finds herself trailing attorney Joe Miller (R) by roughly 1,600 votes.

    Cairncross will spend several days on the ground in Alaska as Murkowski and her campaign prepare for the counting of as many as 16,000 absentee ballots — a process expected to start next Tuesday and continue through early September.

    Committee sources insisted that too much should not be read into Cairncross’ presence in Alaska — only that the NRSC is an incumbent-retention committee and, as such, provides assistance when Senators ask for it.

    What a load of crap that last sentence is.

    As evidence that the committee is not putting all of its chips on Murkowski, a GOP source tells the Fix that Rob Jesmer, the bespectacled executive director of the NRSC, spoke by phone with a top Miller aide yesterday — making clear that if he wins the election the committee will support him wholeheartedly.

    Translation: “If we don’t manage to prevent your getting the GOP nomination from our chosen candidate, we’ll be glad to offer help on the slim chance there is any money left in our ‘Alaska’ budget after we’re done pissing it away against you.”

  • constitutionalconservative

    And when Murkowski loses the recounts (which she will) she better stay on the sidelines

  • SIConservative

    With Knowles taking himself out of consideration, there is another, still more sinister possibility: what if Murkowski switches parties and runs as a Democrat? If the Democrats understand just how much danger their majority is in, they just might go for it and find a way to reward McAdams for bailing.

  • Achance

    Alaska has a long period to receive absentees because it takes a long time to get mail and we have many citizens in the military all over the World. I thought this was the sort of thing all you “true conservatives” liked.

    This is a bunch of paranoid drivel to try to get Miller some money and attention. None of you, including Erick, know jack about elections in Alaska. The director of the division of elections and all the regional managers of elections are Palin/Parnell appointees, so if there were any hanky-panky, it would favor Miller. Questioned, mismarked, undervoted, etc. ballots begin being counted today. I’ll be one of the Republican witnesses for my district. There’ll be a Democrat witness, maybe a Libertarian as well. If we all agree as to whether the ballot should be counted and how, that’s the way it is counted. If we don’t agree, the manager, the director, or ultimately the court decides whether it counts and how.

    Virtually every precinct uses OCR voting with paper ballots for backup. The few that don’t are very rural and tend Democrat. Any questioned ballots or recounts are done simply by running the ballot through the machine in front of witnesses. The machine will kick out all undervoted ballots and mismarks and then the witnesses get to decide as I described above. The only real potential for vote stealing is in who voted but there is very little of that sort of thing here and there hasn’t been since the State all went on one time zone and communications to the rural areas improved. There are places where with a little local cooperation one could vote early and often and there were some unproven allegations of that in Knowles’ first election, but it is hard to do and lmost impossible in the more urban areas; precincts are small and polling places and staff are very stable, so everybody knows everybody. You won’t be able to show up in a van with a crew of voters. And there won’t be any bags of ballots found lying around; they go straight from the voters’ hand into the machine.

  • SIConservative

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/08/24/primary-open-thread/#comment-80469

    As for not knowing Alaska politics, many of us thought Miller had a shot. You didn’t.

  • bk

    As I said in another thread, the loser needs to suck it up and help the winner. What’s annoying here is:
    - Murkowski is being coy, which sure makes it look to me like she’s saying if she doesn’t win then she’ll find a way to run as a Libertarian or any other party that will let her. If Miller had lost and decided to run anyway as AIP or whatever else, it would be just as bad.
    - The NRSC should stay out of primaries, but if anything they should be there as a neutral party. To say they are providing free support to Murkowski only is ridiculous. They’re the NRSC, not the NIORSC (Natl Incumbent-only RSC). How stupid is it that they will help drain Miller campaign funds to offset what they are providing to Murkowski?

  • qixlqatl
  • SIConservative
  • Scope

    are all the ballots at the same location?

  • aesthete

    The only thing the Libertarian Party has going for it is its ridiculous commitment to ideological rigidity. Accepting Murowski as their candidate would make no sense.

  • pilgrim

    In the Georgia Governor race the Tea Party favorite was behind to the establishment candidate by about the same amount as Lisa is to Joe. Karen Handel chose to concede before all the absentee ballots were counted and before a recount was launched.

  • Scope

    and runs as an Independent or Libertarian, are they going to assist her in those efforts also.

    If Murkowski manages a win out of this there are going to be a whole lot of angry people in this country, and, it will hurt the Republican party.

  • Richard Mullins

    It’s going to take some time to get all those votes from the Bush to the place where they get counted. That’s what some forget and I understand where Art is coming from. It would be different if they all had roads but that’s not the case. It’s too early to get hyped up for Miller when they do have some time to count those ballots. If you don’t like Alaska’s election law, then ask for them to change the law.

  • deano64

    state of exhaustion. My wife and I can barely keep up with one 2 year old. Haha!

    So must for party unity ehh?

  • chihank

    The RGA is attempting to make peace with Rick Scott. Also the RGA stepped in to promote unity in the Gov primaries of WY and GA. Those priamries were decided by less than 1%. The losing candidates were in their rights to request recounts, but declined due to pressure from the RGA.

    Will the NRSC pressure Lisa M to resist the temptation to be the Charlie Crist/Tom Tancredo of AK?

  • constitutionalconservative

    Or sadly, very believable.

    I almost hope we don’t take the Senate this cycle because we need another cycle to purge all of the idiots and get conservatives running things there.

  • constitutionalconservative

    And I’m not one of the “voter frad” paranoids– though I would note the rural Democrat-leaning districts that are the least secure were by far Murkowski’s best-performing areas.

    My concern is not vote fraud but Murkowski’s waffling on a third-party run. There is no reason in the world that right now she cannot say “I will support the Republican Primary winner, but we need to do a full vote count to determine who that is”. But it is clear that she is contemplating other options.

    I will support the Republican primary winner in the general, whether it be Murkowski or Miller. Will you?

    More to the point, I will do anything to defeat a sore loser who fails in the primary and then tries to waffle out.. And every Republican nationwide should do the same.

  • Scope

    to all of us here at Redstate, and to Erick. When the Benishek/Allen vote came in so close, and they were recanvassing, I, and many others here, said that Benishek needed to accept the defeat and move on, if Allen gained more votes than him.

    Also, it seems to me that sending the top attorney from the NRSC to help one of the Republican candidates, Murkowski, would be the same as an in kind donation to Murkowski. Isn’t that illegal? How is the attorney being paid? out of the campaign donations collected from across the country?

    There are others here that post about politics, and elections in Alaska, that are from Alaska. It is never a good idea to always just take one person’s word for it. No one owns the final say on anything. It is EE’s perfect right, more so than anyone else here, to ask for money for Miller, and to give him his plug.

    Go Joe.

  • qixlqatl
  • earlgrey

    Can’t imagine going through this with 6 more. Didn’t realize those were all his kids. Wow is right.

  • tngal

    Term limits would cut back on their “incumbant retention” duties I would think. No wonder everyone thinks its “their seat”

    Some people DO NOT NEED TO BE RETAINED. That’s what we’re trying to tell you. Are you not hearing us at the polls? How did this committee get to be deaf and blind all in one fell swoop?

  • Achance

    Gave her a good sized check; not “I want an appointment” size but close to the legal max.

    I don’t think she has any other options. She’s not going to switch parties and if she did, I don’t think people on this board have any idea how much Alaska Democrats hate the name Murkowski. It is extraordinarily unlikely that the Libertarians would make her their nominee and those are the only options.

    What I’m sure she’s thinking is that two weeks ago every pollster and pundit had her up by double digits. Miller rode the perfect wave of very low turnout and general disinterest including complacency by Murkowski supporters who mostly believed she would win handily. He had a highly motivated base which was supplemented by a dedicated constituency for the Parental Notice initiative that was on the ballot. Since most of the absentee ballots would have been cast some time ago, the calculus would be that they predate Miller’s surge at the end and would be more favorable to her. I’m not sure she’s right, but I understand the thinking.

  • leehazel

    If Murkowski accepts “outside” help to screen and count absentee ballots and id ACORN shows up we are in trouble. Furthermore I thought Murkowski is/was a Republican.
    If Al Franken shows up in Alaska we know there is going to be a problem.
    This is Alice in Wonderland kind of stuff. Murkowski should concede.
    Finally, if she decides to pull a Crist, as in Florida, every big gun in the conservative movement should land on her with a vengeance. Her political days should be over, forever.

  • constitutionalconservative

    Figures to wind up around 100K total vs. 101K in 2006 when Palin/Murkowski/Binkley was a much sexier three-way race with 10X the publicity. Turnout for the 2008 Senate Primary (Presidential year) was 105K and in 2004 (also a presidential year) it was just 78K. Both of those were contested.

    I’m concerned that your “disinterest” narrative is going to be carried much more strongly in the actual Murkowski camp, which has more at stake. There are times in election where a nobody wins in an ultra-low turnout campaign because he/she motivates her base. There’s no evidence, based on turnout, that this happened here.

    Miller appears to have won fair and square in a typical-turnout primary.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    Oooh….Red Alert, Red Alert. Those dirty, crooked Democrats are going to cheat. Send money! Send money!

    I suppose they would if they could. Although the last place that will probably happen is Alaska as Art so correctly explained- Alaska ain’t Florida.

    As for Cornyn’s Storm Troopers at the NRSC- who gives them money anyway.

  • jnoeagle

    All politicians learn about “Ghost” voters – probably during their first campaign for precinct ward heeler. The first time I noticed these votes in action was the Kennedy/Nixon election. They show up and vote everywhere. Some of them are not even registered by the records keepers in the cemetaries. Any Dem who is worth their salt, can get at least 5 to 7 per cent additional votes by marshalling their ghosts.

    My experience with politics started with shaking Truman’s hand during his campaign at the back of of a Santa Fe Streamliner in Oceanside, CA. He was in town for about a half hour. I have seen a lot of elections stolen by politicians. I have even seen a few somewhat honest elections. It will seldom get any better than that.

  • Duke

    To prevent duplicate voting, it is the policy of the Division of Elections to count by-mail, by-fax, in-person and special needs ballots after Election Day. This allows the division to compare the precinct sign-in registers and all other voting methods prior to counting the ballots. In accordance with Alaska law, ballots must be counted no later than 15 days after Election Day.

    Hmmmm…, to PREVENT duplicate voting. Sort of like Minn. – Land of 10,000 found absentee voters.

  • bk

    The only chance the Democrat has of winning would seem to be a three-way race.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Now we have some big money GOP donors coming out in support of Hick.

  • mom2oneson

    So does that mean she still has a chance? If so why are we saying she is acting badly. I would so totally hang in there. I feel bad for her if she is reading these threads like it’s not even for sure yet that she lost.

  • IJB

    Wasn’t the GOP turnout in the last AK Primary about 100K? The turnout in this race was about 92K. A drop of 8-10% in turnout doesn’t strike me as much of a drop off, and really doesn’t merit the label “very low turnout” IMO…

  • Republican_Michigander

    That’s all I have to say.

  • constitutionalconservative

    By the time the Absentees come in, this will be shown to have been a typical, or maybe even slightly higher than average turnout.

  • bk

    If ALL the requested ballots came in and ALL were validated, she’d need a margin of 55-45 or higher to make up the difference. If half of them do, she needs a 60-40 margin.

    It’s certainly possible, though it would seem unlikely given she’s down 50.9 to 49.1 in the 92K+ votes that were cast election day.

  • tngal

    So now every candidate for governor is being funded by GOP. Man as a group we republicans must be flush with cash this year to have so much we’re giving it to the other party.

    I’m not sure what’s going on this year, but there are some weird things happening in the political spectrum. Every once in a while you’d get a candidate who switched parties and ran third ticket, or you have one that just plan switches parties, or you have a contestable race, the occasional upset here or there..but this year we’ve got all these things happening, some in triplicate. Its twilight zone politics.

    Remember the good ole days when it was just a sex scandal that could turn an election.

  • gekster

    Has anyone seen Frankin recently?

  • AKSteveB

    I didn’t like the way he ran his campaign, and being a friend of Todd Palin isn’t exactly a bonus, but he does have an interesting resume and more importantly, he’ll vote the way we want. That is a no brainer. (well and of course he is a ham radio operator!)

    The one that is gonna be a lot more troublesome here is Parnell. It is odd. I have a pretty broad range of friends and acquaintances in local Repub circles and I don’t know anyone who admits to voting for him, yet about 50 pct of those voting in the primary supported him. I don’t even think it is a Palin thing, she wasn’t making much noise for him. At this point we’re stuck again with something similar to Palin-Knowles. Berkowitz like Knowles is a way out there Socialist, though perhaps not as corrupt, yet is running to the right of Parnell in terms of oil policy. That should give you some idea how bad Parnell is on this issue.

  • Lloyd Davis

    Remember he was the one who siad that the GOP needed to recruit more moderates. He sure doesn’t want to lose one.

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  • onehutu

    To Murkowsky. I, for one, am tired of states like Alaska that feed off the “federal trough” taking in far more than they contribute to the national budget. Sounds like Miller is the real deal and will end the feeding frenzy that has the rest of the country subsidizing one of the smallest states in the union (by population) to an extraordinary degree. Just wait until Alaskans figure that out.

  • Oz

    I agree that all the votes should be counted.

    If she starts pushing for a recount and wont say no to an independent / libertarian run then that is another thing altogether.

  • AKSteveB

    Stevens had the same type of lead before the absentees were counted and Begich ended up winning. With that history, there is no way to concede right now. I do agree the third party stuff needs to stop …right now.

  • AKSteveB

    Stevens had the same type of lead before the absentees were counted and Begich ended up winning. With that history, there is no way to concede right now. I do agree the third party stuff needs to stop …right now.

  • trapperjohn

    I’m not one craving federal handouts. But I can certainly see how it is rationalized. The federal government nationalized 106 million acres of Alaska’s best land in the 80s. The state was promised 103 million acres but still hasn’t seen a lot of it. That land is still in Federal, (BLM and other agencies). It still owns about 222 million acres of land. Native Corporations own about 44 million acres.

    The land that was transfered to the state is regulated beyond belief to keep it from being developed. There are plenty of natural resources that would allow Alaska to easily be self-suffiecient but the land is essentially locked up.

    Most of Alaska is still in third-world status with no roads and in many cases no running water or sewer. These “bush” villages could easily be self-sufficient were they allowed to develop their resources.

    My hope is that Miller will be able to rip up some of those regulations to allow the state to use it’s resources.

    That was the best thing about the Murkowski administration, they were moving in that direction until he turned the guns on himself by appointing his daughter to take his own job.

  • trapperjohn

    A republican and a democrat witness? It should be a representative of Murkowski and a representative of Miller. The only questioned election statewide is that race after all. This isn’t a general where we are fighting between a D and an R.

    I assume you will be a Murkowski Rep, not a Republican Rep.

  • Scope

    Why would there be a Republican and a Democrat and a Libertarian as witnesses to a Republican primary issue? Also, why bring in a big gun DC lawyer to “witness counting absentee ballots” before the absentee ballots are even counted the first time. I could understand extra help if this was a recount issue, but, counting the absentee ballots? Absentee ballots always seem to be where the biggest vote fraud cases take place.

  • sccrenny

    South Carolina bucked the trend and didn’t fall for the sex scandal ruse, either. The GOP good ol’ boys tried that one with Haley. Between all that and Jim DeMint, I have hope for the Sandlapper State. Now if we can just figure out what to do with “Goober” Graham….

  • takemccain2

    I’m convinced that the NRSC and the elites running the GOP will stoop to any tricks they can to steal this one away from conservatives. This is a fair warning to Cornyn and company – if you interfere in any way that unfairly turns this election in one candidates favor then be prepared for an all-out civil war from the ranks of the base.
    We are sick of you messing around in primaries and we aren’t going to vote for any more members of your good ole boys club. Do you get it? You had better.
    Your actions of sending a lawyer to help ” count votes ” is more than just passingly suspicious. If you think the base distrusts you now, just see what happens if ballots start just ‘showing up’ in Alaska with the check mark for Murkowski. Are you prepared for the backlash you will get? Again, you had better be.

  • SirGladiator

    Thank you Erick for the heads up, I did my part to help the next Senator from Alaska, Joe Miller. I hope that he gets whoever he needs to get in there, to counter the NRSC and whoever else they’re bringing in to work against him. Every vote needs to be counted fair and square, and in the meantime Murkowski should publicly state that she is going to fully support Joe, assuming his sizable lead holds up.

  • popdaddy

    GOP leaders should hold press confrences Friday to announce their intentions to hold Congressional hearings on election fraud in state votes that appear to deny the will of the voters.

    Wouldn’t hurt to send a plane ticke tdated for Feb 2011 to Alaska vote officals.

    It’s bad enough to let socialist democrats fefraud elections, we sure can’t let a RINO get away with it.

  • Achance

    and ultimately six Miller representatives and no Democrats showed up. The nice ladies that do this stuff as volunteers or temporaries for Elections do their thing and they do it well. It went way past dull and pretty far into excruciatingly boring because the polling place workers and the Elections staff rarely make mistakes.

    Now this was only qualifying questioned ballots, and there are a LOT. We weren’t looking at the marks on ballots, we were only looking at the qualification of the voter to vote in given elections, and the limitations don’t really apply to a Statewide race except for a few Libertarians and such that try to say they’re NPs and take a Republican ballot; if you’re not a Republican or an NP, you CAN’T vote in the Republican primary – PERIOD, but some seem to have had trouble understanding that. Those get counted only on the ballot measures. It was totally uneventful. The actual marks will only be examined if there is a recount.

    The talk is all focussed on the Absentees, but the Questioned ballots haven’t been counted yet either. I don’t know how many there are, but in the Districts I saw today, there were lots; people not re-registering after moving, marriage, etc.; any of that stuff causes your ballot to be questioned.

    And I was both a Republcan and a Murkowski rep; they’re not mutually exclusive, though a lot of the Miller people seem to think they are.

  • Achance

    it is a Primary Election issue in which Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, AIPs, and NPs can all vote. Even in the “closed” Republican Primary, NPs can vote. And every questioned ballot gets examined no matter the Party of the voter, if any, or the ballot the voter chooses.

    So, for you geniuses who know so much about this. A woman has been a registered NP in Kenai, marries a guy from Anchorage and moves there to live with him. She shows up with him at the ANC polling place to vote. She is not on that precinct’s registered voter roster, she has a Voter Registration card in her maiden name with her Kenai address, but that doesn’t match the name and address on her drivers’ license. Does she get to cast a vote, what ballot can she have, and what races can she vote in? Hint; it’s all simple if you don’t know anything about it.

  • qixlqatl

    being drawn out until all the votes are counted (if it’s that close, and it looks like it is), but I see no need for the acrimony.

    In honesty, the candidates themselves may not be doing any of this, but their supporters sure seem to be, from what I see here. I just don’t get it……..

  • Achance

    Most of that island south of Hawaii belongs to you. The federal government and federal Indians own two thirds of Alaska. What they spend here is your problem. It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to start typing and remove all doubt.