If you thought Sarah Palin might take a brief respite between the 2010 midterms and the run-up to the 2012 presidential race, think again — and tune into TLC at 9 ET/8 CT Sunday night. The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee will star — along with her family — in an [...]
As the counting of write-in ballots continues in Alaska, Senate candidate Joe Miller said Thursday that state election officials were using a “different standard” to judge votes for his opponent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller, who has sued to disqualify any apparent votes for Murkowski that misspelled her name, told ABC News that the state Division [...]
The counting of write-in ballots continues in Alaska, after a federal judge denied Senate candidate Joe Miller’s request to disqualify any apparent votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski that misspelled her name. U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline said Wednesday that Miller didn’t prove he would suffer “irreparable harm” if the count went on, The Associated [...]
When your last name is Murkowski, you probably get used to having it misspelled from time to time. But with the count of write-in ballots under way in the Alaska Senate race, Republican Joe Miller has sued in federal court to disqualify any apparent votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski that misspell her name. Miler doesn’t [...]
Joe Miller, the Republican candidate for Alaska Senate, said Tuesday he is “cautiously optimistic” that a count of 30,500 absentee ballots, followed by a hand tally of write-in votes, will vault him ahead of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state’s extraordinary three-way contest. Counting began Tuesday, a week after the midterm election. Miller finished second [...]
It’s not over in Alaska but Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears to be in the driver’s seat as election officials prepare to count absentee ballots and examine the all-important write-in votes that suggest the incumbent came out ahead in a three-way contest for U.S. Senate. Murkowski told NBC’s “Today” show Thursday her bid to make history [...]
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