>>>“Simply a spelling error” is NOT a minor thing when dealing with write in ballots.
I recognize these voters PROBABLY meant to vote for the senator, but as a legal principle I can see requiring exact spelling on a write in.
How else can you possibly “know” who someone really planned to vote for on a write in??? There is no other way.<<<
I live in Alaska, and here’s the bad news. The state supreme court has decided, a while ago, that “the intent of the voter” overrides spelling the name correctly. That means that a vote for Murcowsky or Mirkowski or Merkowskee will count as a vote for Lisa Murkowski. That’s established law up here. I voted for Miller, but right now he’s looking like the sore loser. It ain’t pretty.
You don’t have to tell me Miller lost this fight with the voters, and even before the count. Otherwise “write in” wouldn’t have more voters than Miller.