Good question!
The General Election totals are around 184,000.
But the primary total was only 104,346. See below:
Murkowski’s concession came after a day of counting just over 17,000 absentee and questioned ballots. Nearly 12,000 of them were from Republican primary voters, who had the potential to change the Miller-Murkowski race. But when the day was done, Murkowski had only picked up 38 votes and Miller’s lead was 1,630 votes. He had a total of 52,988 votes to 51,358 for Murkowski.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/08/31/1433454/murkowski-concedes-senate-race.html#ixzz15UfszJww
Wow...where did all those ‘extra’ votes come from?