Breaking: Miller still not giving up [5:40 PST]

Alaska Dispatch ^ | 11/17/2010 | Joshua Saul

[SeattleBruce]

The Associated Press has called the race for Murkowski, who is expected to declare victory Wednesday night at the Laborer's Hall in Anchorage.

Here's the press release:

Miller: Integrity of the Vote is Vital

Anchorage, Alaska. November 17, 2010 -- Joe Miller, U.S. Senate candidate, anticipates the end of the vote counting in Alaska today with the tallying of the overseas ballots. With over 255,000 votes cast, less than one percent of the vote total now separates Miller and Murkowski.

In order to ensure the integrity of the election results, the Miller campaign has requested, and the Division of Elections has now granted, the opportunity to review some precinct logs from throughout the state. Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto said, "Our campaign has sworn affidavits identifying unsecured ballot boxes, other precincts where numerous ballots appear to be in the same handwriting, others where there is 100% voter turnout and still other precincts where the ballots were sent to the Division of Elections presorted by U.S. Senate candidate. These and other irregularities give our campaign pause. Alaskans must be able to trust the results of its elections."

[SeattleBruce]

Oh sure, the murky one will declare victory. She has a MANDATE with 38% of the vote total...what a joke. Sure Miller, if he were to win, would have a similarly low total. But at least he'd be in a position to acknowledge it, while murky struts around trying to pound Palin and DeMint like some kind of national mandate has been accomplished with her 92,000 uncontested write-in votes.

HOW MANY OF MURKY'S VOTES ARE SUSPECT?

DO THE REGISTERS MATCH THE # OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN EACH DISTRICT?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Thank you, Joe.

You're doing the right thing.

Fight the bitch all the way to the supreme court and back.

[SeattleBruce]

“Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto said, “Our campaign has sworn affidavits identifying unsecured ballot boxes, other precincts where numerous ballots appear to be in the same handwriting, others where there is 100% voter turnout and still other precincts where the ballots were sent to the Division of Elections presorted by U.S. Senate candidate.”

Nuthin’ to see here folks, move it along, murky is your sen. write-in! Move it along...go on home now...

[shield]

Keep fightin’ Joe!!!! She is attempting to steal this election....another stolen election now it is by a crooked Republican....

[SeattleBruce]

“Our campaign has sworn affidavits identifying

**unsecured ballot boxes,

**other precincts where numerous ballots appear to be in the same handwriting,

**others where there is 100% voter turnout

**and still other precincts where the ballots were sent to the Division of Elections presorted by U.S. Senate candidate.”

[SeattleBruce]

http://joemiller.us/2010/11/miller-integrity-of-the-vote-is-vital/

[Sooth2222]

"“Our campaign has sworn affidavits identifying unsecured ballot boxes, other precincts where numerous ballots appear to be in the same handwriting, others where there is 100% voter turnout and still other precincts where the ballots were sent to the Division of Elections presorted by U.S. Senate candidate.”

Well, that's just so typical for Chicago -- oh, wait!

[j.argese]

mark it

[SeattleBruce]

"One important step in reviewing the results of the election is ensuring that the number of voters signed in the precinct logs on Election Day matches the number of votes being recorded from that precinct and that there is no evidence of voter fraud. Further verification of these totals will have to come from the tapes that the voting machines produce with a tally of the number of voters and the break down between candidates.

So far the Division of Elections has failed to respond to the Miller request for these tapes."

[pollywog]

Good for him!! Something isn’t right.

[SeattleBruce]

"Additionally, the Murkowski write-in ballots have undergone a hand count review where spoiled ballots are being counted for her,

whereas the Miller ballots have all been counted by machine with many valid ballots not being included."

[Benchim]

I smell a huge rat. I do not want her taking her seat until this is fully resolved. I do not want her to have any seniority if she is seated. She left our party. She is a Lieberman and she is not worth a damned!!

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[Lando Lincoln]

To Joe Miller,

Dude... you lost.

[redhead]

Murky is announcing her win in an attempt to force Miller to concede before all the absentee votes have been counted.

[Minn]

Just a shame he had to come unglued in the final weeks. Seems that things about being disciplined for computer misuse at work really hurt him. On the brighter side, there’s enough fresh conservative blood that Murkowski won’t hold a lot of power. And given the likely GOP rout coming in 2012 she’s got no incentive to cozy up with the coming minority.

[1010RD]

They’re trying to leverage this to bump him out of the race. If he’s serious about winning he’ll have to act quickly and decisively.

Otherwise voters will tire of him and assume he’s lost. That’s the game that’s unfolding.

Call it for Murkowski and call it a day...

[SeattleBruce]

“Dude... you lost.”

Dude - do you trust this was a fair process? Should Miller’s campaign be able to do cursory validations on the precinct logs?

[Rashputin]

He shouldn't give up. Look at what you get when the conservative gives up, Al Franken. As long as the folks who don't care about the will of the people can win by hanging on the longest and distorting or eliminating a portion of the ballots cast we'll never take the real strongholds. Miller shouldn't give up as long as anyone who voted for him wants him to keep going.

Regards

[FreeReign]

Murky is using the propaganda that she is 10K votes ahead, never mind the fact that 8K write-in votes are being contested.

And we had Freepers here who agreed with the judge that the count should not have been stopped until the rules were resolved.