I only heard the write in Miller votes were tossed on some article and were not to be counted. The number was not tossed.
My point, if supposedly you bend over backwards for the voter to have Murk only be close, why not also count Miller votes accidentally cast as write in fashion as well as the regular way if the intention was to vote Miller and that can be determined?
I agree that if the write-ins are being counted based on “intent” then any write-ins for Miller should certainly count. I just have not seen any article with any numbers about whether there were any such write-ins or not.
I can even see why somebody would write-in Joe Miller. After all, the write-in ballots will all be visually inspected, whereas machine counted ballots might have their counts diddled with. Or ... some voters might have thought it would be cute for Murkowski to think all the write-ins must be for her, only to be embarrassed during the actual counting.