Posted on 11/11/2010 8:46:57 AM PST by jmaroneps37
If you want to see our last TEA party Senate candidate win help Joe Miller after reading this report.
A source on the ground in Alaska close to Joe Miller’s campaign has provided this information which is being smothered by the main stream media.
The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) is asking the Justice Department to send an election observer to Juneau to help them to force illegitimate votes into the final tally of the race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her TEA party backed challenger attorney Joe Miller who defeated her in a GOP primary.
Despite the AFN’s reasonable sounding request, this is merely a pretense to violate Alaska election law, something that has become a hallmark of this election from the close of the polls on primary night.
At issue is a quantity of ballots cast by AFN members with various incorrect spellings of Murkowski’s name. The AFN is insisting that “voter intend” be employed to count such ballots thus creating its own interpretation of Alaska which says just the opposite.
Miller is merely insisting on following state law, which is the constitutionally binding authority in the matter. Alaskan statute 15.15.360. states a vote “shall be counted if the oval is filled in for that candidate and if the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided.”
The statute continues with “there are no exceptions” to this statute; “A ballot may not be counted unless marked in compliance with these rules.”
Murkowski’s AFN stooges know very well that Barack Obama wants Murkowski to win so he can mitigate some of the losses he took in the Senate last week. Murkowski has been ambivalent about where her loyalties will lie should she be returned to office.
This election is clearly between the same crooks that Sarah Palin kicked out of office and the Alaska TEA party. This is a desperate effort to keep the corrupt Murkowski/Stevens machine in power.
Democrat and “Native” hands all over this
In several AFN villages where the Democrat registration is 100%, Murkowski got 100% of the write-ins cast. The Natives in Alaska live largely off the federal dole in one form or another.
They are the ones who are credited with encouraging Murkowski to run as a write in. They have received $23 billion in NO BID federal contracts in the last ten years and they don’t look forward to having to fight a Senator Miller for earmarks they can buy with a few thousand write in votes.
Alaska’s Lt. Governor Craig Campbell, who conspicuously thanked Frank Murkowski for giving him his start in politics, agrees with Murkowski’s “Natives” insistence upon “voter intent” in violation of his own State’s law. On the ground reports reveal that Miller is still in an excellent position to beat the Murkowski/Stevens and Campbell attempt to steal this election.
A large number of uncounted absentee ballots and the trend of already counted ones favoring Miller with 60%, plus the fact that the percentage of invalidated write-in ballots is currently running at 12% which is well above the average of 5%, suggests that if Miller is successful in forcing the State of Alaska to follow its own election laws (sounds bizarre doesn’t it?) he will win.
There are enough absentee ballots to overcome the number of certifiable write ins provided the improperly prepared ones are thrown out as the law requires. This is where we can help. Alaska is huge. Getting around up there means flying which is expensive.
If you have worked for your own TEA party candidate, if you have contributed to a TEA party candidate, if you believe that allowing Murkowski to win is a win for Obama and a loss for America, please send Joe Miller money. We have stood shoulder to shoulder and won a lot more than we lost. This is our last assignment in our mission to save America. Go to: http://joemiller.us/
It’s a shame tongass kid that we can’t repuort you for being a RINO loving, DU troll. You always take umbrage with Conservatives; why are you even on this Conservative website? Wouldn’t you be more at home with your friends at the Democratic Underground?
Miller, Joe REP 82180 35.46%
Write-in Votes 92979 40.12%
If 5,400 write-ins are for Miller, he wins.
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That would be wonderful but, why would someone write-in Joe Miller’s name when he is on the ballot?
however, Cow has already changed election law by having her name on an official state list that was passed out or available to all voters...that was a change of law DURING an election season that should never have been allowed...
if people had to write in the old fashioned way, she would have gotten very few votes..
and of course, now they are changing state law to benefit a certain candidate DURING and election.....
how can that stand...
Good...I’m glad they’re gonna “Franken” this election...
I don’t think he’ll get that many write in votes, but wouldn’t a vote for anybody but Cow or an errant vote be just as good?
If they steal this election from Joe and give it to the Murkowski brat who thinks it’s her seat because her daddy gave it to her, I hope there are enough Tea Partiers in Alaska to take to the streets.
I also think that if the radio campaigning done by the Tribal Chiefs on VHS Radio, is Public Radio, the new GOP Congress needs to defund their little radio station until they learn not to use it for illegal purposes.
And your point is...?
“Miller, Joe REP 82180 35.46%
Write-in Votes 92979 40.12%
If 5,400 write-ins are for Miller, he wins.
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That would be wonderful but, why would someone write-in Joe Miller’s name when he is on the ballot?”
Joe doesn’t need 5400 write ins. He needs a % of the write ins to be disallowed which can be overcome by his strength in absentee ballots.
I tend to agree (sorry!). I think it’s all up to the judge now, and whether or not the legal bill gets paid is not likely to influence anything.
Lawyers often work for months on end with little to no pay on big cases - I should know; I am married to one such lawyer :)
As a volunteer who waved signs for Joe, despite the campaign’s huge gaffes - I can say that I’m not willing to donate money at this point unless it’s a dollar that could actually help put the guy in office.
Actually, the list had to be requested - and I believe they kept some track of that, an only a small fraction of people even asked for it. With 50,000 bracelets, tattoos, etc - believe me, people didn’t even need that.
Lisa won in the bush - and it’s also in the bush that the electioneering occurred, IMHO. The Native corps had their henchman go to each village and basically force them to vote for Murkowski - and unfortunately, my husband says that Miller had to have caught them in the act doing that in order to have acted on it. But it also seems to strengthen the “protest” argument on misspellings...
My husband (AK lawyer for over 25 years) thinks that they should have brought this in state court, not federal. In federal court, even if somehow there are enough bad votes to matter, and they side for Joe, this can get kicked up to a higher court, where the judge or judges may be a bunch of liberals or RINOs.
I wish it were different but it looks like Miller will have to concede this week.
And where are the Military and Overseas ballots. This drives me nuts. I can’t find any info on this at all except a report the Military ballots are supposed to be counted on the 17th. Does anyone know how many were sent out? How many overseas ballots where sent out? Is there any place where they list how many they have received back?
From what I see, because of the way they talk about absentee and Military and overseas separately, then there must be more ballots, or did no Military or overseas resident vote??
Yes I agree with you, I haven’t read anything more about these, although I think there are still 15 or 20,000 between these and the ‘questioned’ ballots. Questioned ballots are not illegitimate at all - my own ballot for the 2006 election was questioned because they screwed up and didn’t have me listed on the registry for my precinct.
Well, someone has to know something about these. It’s said the Military and overseas ballots count begins the 17th. But there seems to be no way to figure out how many went out or how many, so far, have come back. We need that info to see what the spread really is at this point.
“In our view, by now imposing a “voter intent” standard even though the legislature stated emphatically “no exceptions,” the state executive branch has unconstitutionally usurped the exclusive prerogative of the legislative branch.”
Miller concluded by noting that “We want a consistent application of the law, not new standards created literally 36 hours before the vote count is to start and after all the votes have been cast.”
more http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=4ed896e60d9a1d9a10dec11a0&id=79a3e494ba
I believe the absenttees are counted already....I don't know if that includes military...
but with 93,000 votes that are write ins, Joe needs to get about 6000 votes OR Cow needs to get 6000 less than the total number...that would make her at the 87,000 mark and Joe has just over that....
no matter what, this has been a very close race...and Joe should use the law to get every legal ballot counted, and the illegal ones tossed....
suppose there a few more absentee ballots to count....maybe Miller could pick up 1000 more votes than Cow.....several things could swing this election....
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