Posted on 11/15/2010 7:54:11 PM PST by Southnsoul
Very sad. Another stinkin cheat and crook.
She will be another Arlen Spector.
This is good news. He’s still got all the military ballots.
If there were enough ballots misspelled then Joe should continue with his lawsuit.
Anyone know if Mikulski means something different than Murkowski? Sounds like a difference in regional dialects and nothing more ~ we need a slavic language specialist on the scene to translate these names.
This one really gets me. How can anyone do what she did and call herself a winner? She is a disgrace and the epitome of what we all hate in politics. I sure am hoping for a miracle....I couldnt stand to see her accept this stolen race and act like a winner. Shows what money and the need for power does to people.
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/10GENR
Updated results here. Not looking good at all. Apparently the military/overseas ballots will not put Miller over, barring a miracle. They don’t expect those ballots to amount to as many as 1000 total. And if they did and they were all for Miller, it wouldn’t be enough. And if they were enough, Democrats know how to steal or invalidate military ballots. It’s their specialty.
Ahead by 1,700 but 7,000 ballots are in dispute and Military ballots have not been counted. Looks like a close one.
That’s the only hope, the disputed ballots and he should fight. He will need our help. I am willing to donate. This is just wrong.
Lisa Murkowski won’t survive for long... She may have her win here (and be despised by most Americans) but she seems to be able to gain another 6 years due to her local corrupt Republican party. This is a short term win for her, but a long term loss for Alaska.
I really hope that she is shunned and despised in Congress - after all, she is just another example of those that claim exemptions to the process.
If anyone needs some ruthless wakening up, it is she...
What a totally dispicable lady! Gosh I hope sara has a go at her soon!
Are they done counting the write-ins?
Count to be completed by end of the week.
So it looks like Miller will down 13,000 or so not counting challenges before the absentee counting starts?
These numbers and comments don’t make sense to me, and whoever wrote the articles in Alaska knows how to be about as clear as mud.
Comparing the numbers from the close of the day Sunday to the close of day Monday, Murkowski gained 6,408 votes and Miller gained 2,941 votes.
IOW 9,341 votes counted on Monday.
Now what ballots are those? Are those absentee ballots, and over twice as many people voted for Murkowski before she had even said she was running a write-in campaign? That doesn’t make sense to me.
How many absentee ballots were sent out? How many were received? How many may still come in? How many have been counted?
Those are the facts that a good report should include, but neither of the articles I read gave any of those details. If somebody knows the facts and could fill me in, that would be great.
If they are done with the write-ins, this is about as good a news as could be expected.
The remaining votes should include more Miller votes than Murkowski votes, so he should make up a few hundred.
In the end, the question is how many of the challenged votes are validly challenge.
We know that there are some that are silly challenges, like if the name was cursively spelled, or the voter included “republican” at the end, or put a comma between the first and last name.
There are others that are serious challenges, where the name is scribble and they are assuming it was murkowski.
In the middle are lots of intermediate errors, bad spellings, etc.
If the court went by the strict rules of the law, my guess is Miller would come out ahead.
This was posted yesterday:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627251/posts
However, officials still have to count about 40,000 absentee ballots this week, according to the Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai. That figure includes several thousand absentee ballots with write-in votes that have not been counted yet.
If there are 40,000 absentee ballots left to count...it looks like Miller has a decent chance of pulling this out. That is if the absentee ballots haven’t been tampered with in some way. Is it true that Murkowski is not on the absentee ballots?
I wonder what happened here..Miller beat her fair and square. Did some of those conservatives who voted for him now switch their vote for her rather than vote for Miller? This does not make a lot of sense to me...Something is fishy.
she will probably win and then caucus with the Dems..how is that for rich!
Well, if she has pulled ahead then I guess it’s time to stop counting.....
I don’t like what Murkowski did, I even find her look offensive she looks like a nasty witch.
But I don’t understand all the posts about her stealing the election. Obviously, a lot of people wrote her name in. Miller will have his challenges but if she got more votes she got more votes.
Is anyone going to check if any of the write in ballots bear the same handwriting?
She’s so despised I’d just as soon she went ahead and changed parties. But she won’t...she knows she’ll have more leverage as a RINO.
It’s the corruption of the Republican Party in Alaska. They would not accept the Primary election and backed the loser. This is because they were about to lose their pork and main backer. It has everything to do with corruption...
Actually, I hope she does! At least it will show her true leanings...
It's very difficult to win as a write in as opposed to someone already on the ballot. You have to remember that Miller beat Murkowski in the primary. Something seems fishy and I'm sure many Democrats voted for Murkowski and with Democrats comes the distinct possibility of vote fraud.
Note as well that Murkowski wants the write-in ballots judged a different way than how she proposed in the campaign.
Hey, cheer up. It's only a senate seat and possibly the future a free American society at stake, another check to the Democrats and John McCain.
Both Mikulski and Murkowski are Polish origin of course.
I believe Mikulski is based on "Mikula", which is a regional pronunciation of "Nicholas". It is possible that Murkowski is based on the word "murka", meaning a cat. Either that, or there is a small village Murkowo somewhere. Bur the names are definitely from different sources.
It’s called political corruption at the worst! It seems that in Alaska, you not only have to vote them out, but you have to drive a stake into their heart if you actually expect to win.
Thus, Merekawchi has currently a 1,706 vote advantage over Joe Miller including the 7,601 contested write-in votes.
If 4,706 of Myrkowpsychi's votes are invalidated as not meeting the standard, then Joe Miller would be 3,000 votes ahead.
Of course all of this may be moot if the article got it wrong and Lisa Mirshecow leads without the contested 7,601 votes. Then Joe Miller would require a very big push from the remaining absentee and military ballots.
Many of those have been counted, on election night the totals were 81,000+ to 69,500, so Joe has received about 21,000 absentee votes and Write In about 19,000.
Politico just published that article...Why is the number of 40,000 uncounted ballots used and where did they get their information.
I thought I read earlier that there were 8000+ absentee ballots had been counted but this 40000 is above that. Then the military vote is going to be counted the 17th.
I don’t know, but in light of all this, it would seem Miller still has a good shot. Do you know how the absentee ballots are set up? Is it just Miller & the dem on them?
“And if they were enough, Democrats know how to steal or invalidate military ballots. It’s their specialty.”
Lisa is technically not a Democrat.
The articles say that the count of absentee ballots was only going to begin on Monday. Going by the totals as of close of day on Sunday and close of day Monday, Murkowski got 6,408 votes added Monday and Miller got 2,941 added Monday - which is a total of 9,349 votes added Monday. That’s nowhere near the 40,000 absentee votes said to exist.
The reporting on this is really, really pathetic. Almost as if they’re trying to keep things unclear.
Ireally believe the Dems realized how weak their nominee was and voted for "second best". They, coupled with establishment republicans were enough to put her over the top. If she had not run , the dem would have got mpre votes.
They were counting absentee ballots since the 9th. I doubt there are many out there. If write in has 101,000, Joe has 91,000, and the Dem has about 53,000. That’s 245,000 votes counted already.
That’s slightly above normal for turnout in a US Senate race/Governor for Alaska. I just don’t believe they have more than a couple thousand absentees left, the military ballots are part of what’s been counted.
Joe lost this because many Dems and Stevens voters wrote in Murkowski. The Dem nominee for Gov got around 30% and 37% for House Rep. They are happier with Murkowski for sure then Miller but the Dem could have won this race with 37%.
I literally loathe this woman and what she has done. I can’t wish that ugly, chicken-necked skank any well wishes at all. In fact, I have quite the opposite feelings.
Thanks.
A lot of people need to take a deep breath.
>>> Another stinkin cheat and crook.
How is one either a cheat or a crook by virtue of asking registered voter to cast their ballots in your behalf ? And them actually doing so.
>>> How can anyone do what she did and call herself a winner?
The same way Joe Lieberman did. I remember it well. We loved it then.
>>> she will probably win and then caucus with the Dems
There is no basis to think that. She has been explicit in saying she will remain a republican. Assuming a republican senate year in 2012, there is even less sensible cause to think she would join the soon to be minority.
>>> She may have her win here (and be despised by most Americans)
You think MOST Americans even know her name? Much less care enough to hate her ? Seriously ?
I said this in another thread, but from what I can tell most if not all of those 40,000 had already been counted before. Now they went through to address the ones marked for Write-In.
You are quite right about that. She is not a legal Dem, she is a common-law Dem or a living-in-sin Dem.
A Dem in all but name. And while I wouldn't say the GOP is immaculate, I tend to see Dem rats when election shenanigans get really bold in broad daylight!
None of these numbers are matching up. As of the close of the day Monday, counting contested ballots, Murkowski had 92,164 and Miller had 90,458, according to the news reports. So I’m not sure where you’re getting the extra 9000 or so votes for Murkowski.
And the reports said that the counting of the absentee votes was just to begin on Monday.
So the accounts are not matching up. Makes it a lot easier to cheat if nobody knows what the heck is going on. These reporters need to get it straight, and if the election officials won’t give it to them straight then we have a problem.
Not to mention she wrote an amendment to reign in the EPA from their rewriting of the clean air act and shutting down refineries in Texas. That amendment failed on mostly stupid Dem votes (like my two worthless VA senators) but also some “republicans” as well. If we can get a real bill to stop the EPA tyranny from her, it will be no small thing.
There is nothing any more fishy than when Lieberman won as an independent in CT.
As I said I hate what Murkowski did, but that isn’t corruption. Winning by write in is quite an accomplishment.
Miller didn’ty handle that stupid computer “scandal” well and obviously a lot of democrats voted for Murkowski as well.
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Snips from late last night ADN.com article:
The Murkowski campaign is all but claiming victory as Sen. Lisa Murkowski leads Joe Miller by more than 1,700 votes after Monday's review of write-in ballots.The Division of Elections has now counted 92,164 votes for Murkowski and 90,458 for Miller. Murkowski's number will grow as the state continues to go through write-in ballots today, looking to see what name voters wrote on them.
More than 8,000 write-in ballots remain to be looked at. The trend since counting began last week has been for the Division of Elections to count more than 97 percent of them for Murkowski.......
Miller was hoping to get a boost from absentee ballots. But Monday was the last big count of absentees and there turned out to be more write-ins than Miller votes.
Only about 600 absentee ballots remain to be counted later this week from military and overseas addresses, according to the Division of Elections.
end snips
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/11/15/1555926/murkowski-passes-miller-in-vote.html#ixzz15SLiJNJAM
102,000 ballots marked “Write-In”
92,000 ballots counted for Murkowski (85,000 uncontested)
That’s why the difference in numbers (all of mine rounded for simplicity). As for the absentee ballots, some districts counted theirs starting last week and just added in others as they arrived since then, while other districts didn’t count any at all until Monday the 15th so that they could do it all at once. Joe was hoping to pick up votes Monday with absentees, but instead it looks like “write-in” picked up a lot of votes due to some very strong Murkowski districts doing initial absentee tallying yesterday.
The math is looking pretty near impossible for Joe as of this point. If Murkowski gets 90% uncontested of the last 10,000 write-ins, she’ll total well more than enough uncontested votes to beat Joe.
SHE LOST....AND BOUGHT HER WAY BACK IN....SHE IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH POLITICS!!!!!!!!! PERIOD.
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