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http://foolocracy.com/2008/10/fears-of-voter-fraud-to-delay-alaskan-election-results/
Fears Of Voter Fraud To Delay Alaskan Election ResultsPosted in October 27th, 2008 by Glenn Church in AlaskaElection results from Alaska may be delayed by up to two weeks because more than two dozen people were able to avoid security mechanisms and vote twice in the August primary.

Most of the double voting occurred when voters cast an absentee ballot and then went to the polls on election day.

Although 10 people were caught trying to vote twice on election day, 26 actually were able to do so. One man was able to vote twice at the same precinct.

The state has announced absentee ballots will only be counted after they have been checked with voting lists on election day. Previously, absentee ballots had been counted up to a week before the election and added to the election day votes immediately.

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1. Ted Stevens still has lots of fans in Alaska

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/753040.html

Ted Stevens still has lots of fans in Alaska
By Sean Cockerham
McClatchy Newspapers

STERLING, Alaska — Sen. Ted Stevens, days after a Washington D.C. jury found him guilty of seven felonies, stood in the cold outside a senior center and rejected the possibility that a single Republican supporter in Alaska has turned against him.

"I don't believe it," Stevens said Friday. "Not one person has said that to me."

Alaska hasn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in nearly 30 years. Stevens himself joined the Senate in 1968, after Gov. Wally Hickel appointed him to the seat. Stevens hasn't faced a close election since — until this year's battle with Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.

Begich and Stevens are making a last minute push with just two days before the election. Stevens was on the Kenai Peninsula Friday and in Fairbanks Saturday, while Begich held his own rallies in Juneau and Homer. Both seemed to be targeting voters likely already sympathetic to them, rather than making a big push to change minds on the other side.

If anyone can get elected to the U.S. Senate after a guilty verdict, it's Stevens, said Gerald McBeath, political science professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

"He's been there for years, he's delivered so much to the state and made so many people in the state indebted to him," McBeath said.

Stevens, 84, and his small entourage walked through the Peninsula Center mall. Some shoppers, like Dan Mason, bounded over to Stevens to shake his hand and wish him victory.

"I think he's a good man," Mason said later. "He ought to appeal and come out a little bit cleaner."

A couple of young women excitedly asked to have their picture taken with Stevens. But an

older woman, selling homemade jams in the mall, gave Stevens a skeptical hello. "Not my favorite person," she muttered after the senator walked on.

Stevens passed out peppermint balls to kids dressed as "Star Wars" characters, witches and Power Rangers. One child was dressed as an FBI agent. He didn't stop by Stevens' trunk for candy.

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