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 [...]
It’s still too soon to tell, but early returns appeared to show that Sen. Lisa Murkowski did the improbable and ran a successful write-in campaign to hang onto her Senate seat in Alaska. With 99 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, the Associated Press said “Write-in Votes” accounted for 41 percent of the ballots cast. Fellow [...]
There could be plenty of nail-biters as election results are tallied Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, but one race in particular might leave everyone hanging — for weeks. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign against Joe Miller — who defeated her in Alaska’s GOP Senate primary — and Democrat Scott McAdams is what threatens to gum [...]
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