Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s election victory in Alaska is on hold pending a lawsuit by Joe Miller’s campaign challenging the vote count. U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline said Friday that he would order election officials to wait to certify the results if Miller files his legal challenge in state court by Monday, The Associated Press reported. [...]
After more than a week of ballot counting, Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been named the winner in Alaska, defeating tea party favorite Joe Miller and becoming the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign. With only 700 votes left to count Wednesday afternoon, state election officials announced that Murkowski’s [...]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been declared the winner in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. That she won via a write-in campaign is incredibly impressive. But Politico’s Shira Toeplitz cautions,”Miller has not conceded the race and appeared unwilling to give up the fight just yet. Even as vote totals gave Murkowski an insurmountable lead Tuesday evening, Miller [...]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski appeared Wednesday to have an insurmountable lead after a week of counting write-in votes in the Alaska Senate race — but it’s not over. Republican Joe Miller, trailing Murkowski by 10,400 votes, says the state’s computerized voting system is “suspect” and that the returns from the Nov. 2 election should be counted [...]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose relationship with fellow Alaska politician Sarah Palin has been rocky for years, said Monday that Palin lacks the “intellectual curiosity” to be president. In an interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, Murkowski also said Palin does not have the “leadership qualities” to be commander in chief. “You know, she was my [...]
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 [...]
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