I wouldn’t say she cheated. She didn’t accept the results of the primary, losing to Joe Miller. She mounted a write-in campaign. The democrats knew their guy wouldn’t win, so a large portion wrote her in, instead of their guy. The Alaska Natives, love them some government money, so they love democrats. They also largely wrote her name in instead of the democrat, that they usually would vote for. There is a large portion of non-thinking, Lilly-livered, graft-driven Republicans who wrote her in too.
That’s what I’m saying. No cheating, just rotten.
One GOP IT person who works with voter tabulation machines said that the Alaskan vote in 2008 was completely rigged because of its exceptionally low turnout. Lowest since 1940.. before it was a state... in the year Palin was VP candidate? He was quoted saying this the day before a colleague of his had a fatal plane accident, before he could testify against Karl Rove on the what he knew of the rigged vote.
(Likewise, Hillary just did not cheat ENOUGH in 2016. Trump won in a complete LANDSLIDE)
Knowing what the fat cats thought of Joe and Sarah in 2010, I am dubious that there wasn’t widespread cheating for Murky.