"Tens of thousands of additional votes won’t be counted until next week, at the earliest, state election officials said. That includes some 20,000 absentee votes the state hadn’t counted as of Tuesday evening -- and even more absentee ballots will continue to arrive through a Nov. 19 deadline. There are also an unspecified number of so-called “questioned ballots” -- typically cast by people who voted at the wrong polling place -- of which there were approximately 13,000 in the last midterm election, in 2010.
But Democrats would need a huge advantage among those uncounted voters to close Sullivan’s lead, which sat above 8,000 votes."
Last night, I kept getting calls from Repubs wanting to know if everybody in family voted; they were counting votes in the bush to see if Begich could win from Native vote. They have it figured that Sullivan has won it. Indians are all dems but don't get too serious about voting. I was happy to get a few dem Indians to vote Repub. Also, Indians that are vets are often Republican anyway, no joke.