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libertythor
11-09-2010, 07:10 PM
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/09/first-absentees-counted-in-alaska-joe-miller-gains-900-votes/


The Division of Elections has put out a big statewide update, which includes the districts reported already as well as new ones (will take a little time to figure out just which ones.)

The bottom line in the update is that the state is now reporting that it’s counted over 8,000 absentee and early votes today.

The write-ins lead Joe Miller by 12,525 votes. That represents a 914 vote gain for Miller in today’s count of absentee and early votes. The write-in lead was 13,439 the start of the day.

According to Miller in the clip below, there are roughly 37,000 absentees outstanding.


His strongholds are Fairbanks and the Mat-Su Valley, and it’s unclear from the ADN report quoted above whether they’ve been counted yet. (They hadn’t as of a few hours ago.) Also, Conservatives4Palin notes that he’s doing about eight percent better among absentees than he did on election day whereas the write-ins are doing about eight percent worse. That makes sense: Miller faded near the end of the campaign, so ballots mailed earlier on should break more heavily for him than ballots cast on election day. Fingers crossed.

Meatwasp
11-09-2010, 07:13 PM
I sure hope he wins.

MRoCkEd
11-09-2010, 07:13 PM
Still early, but good news for sure.

libertythor
11-09-2010, 07:14 PM
I sure hope he wins.

He has a good shot if the write-in lead drops under 5% after all absentee ballots are counted. There was a similar circumstance in 2004 involving a write-in campaign for San Diego mayor, and enough votes were disqualified due to misspellings to drop the candidate to second place.