Would Alaska's Endless Election Night End Wednesday?

[Blue_In_AK]

From The Immoral Minority http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/

Look for the needle to move on Alaska's landmark U.S. Senate race and other tight contests this week, with the Division of Elections planning to tally more than half of the uncounted ballots Wednesday.

For days, the count has been frozen. Sen. Ted Stevens leads Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by about 3,000 votes with roughly 30 percent of the ballots remaining to be counted, including:

• 61,000 absentee votes.

• More than 20,000 questioned ballots.

• 9,500 early votes.

Of those, at least two-thirds of the absentee votes and nearly all the early votes are expected to be counted Wednesday, said Division Director Gail Fenumiai.


Personally I have very little confidence that this controversy will be put to rest Wednesday. There are simply too many things that don't seem to add up.

For instance why was the turnout the second lowest in Alaska's history for a year with a Presidential election when we had both the exciting Barack Obama and our own governor in the race?

Why were the poll numbers so different from the actual voter numbers?

And where are ALL of these absentee ballots coming from?

Now the reason that I ask that last question is because of something that I remembered hearing when I snuck into the Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage. The leader of the Republican party up here, Randy Ruedrich, was really stressing the importance of absentee ballots and claiming that getting those distributed would really help the Republicans be victorious. I remember at the time thinking it was odd to focus so much on absentee ballots rather then to encourage them to vote early or to stress how important it was for them to vote on election day.

It may just be that my tinfoil hat is too tight but that statement still bothers me.


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Now this is me, Blue_in_AK, talking...

Coupling this information with the comments at Phil Munger's blog entry here http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/11/number-of-uncounted-votes-in-alaska.html makes me a little uneasy, although apparently the "watchers" are watching. The Mat-Su Valley is Sarah's territory, and very deeply red.

Anonymous said...
I think the fix is in. Look at how many newly discovered votes have suddenly been found in Mat-Su, Area 1, 34-36. It's stunning that so many absentees, early votes, and questioned ballots should suddenly emerge from those areas.

November 10, 2008 6:05 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Rocky! Wanna see me pull a rabbit outa my a$$ I mean hat!

I miss that show. Where's Dudley when you really need him eh?

November 10, 2008 7:07 PM
Anonymous said...
More like "Watch me pull votes out of my ***. Suddenly Mat-Su finds nearly 1000 "Questionable Votes", and 3500 Absentee, And 1600 newly discovered absentees in areas 33-36, and massive new amounts in Area 27-32? All heavily Republican areas?

Someone needs to call in the Feds!

November 10, 2008 7:19 PM
Anonymous said...
How is this possible?

November 10, 2008 7:37 PM
Philip Munger said...
Trust me, folks, a lot of professional people are working on this right now, from within the Democratic Party, both in Alaska and from Outside. I can't say more, but I agree it may require a closer look by law enforcement if some anomalies don't clear up during Wednesday's count. I'll be there.

[NV Whino]

1. Sounds like it's going to get real nasty up there.

Can't you just ship Caribou Barbie and Ted to Russia. It's so close, doncha know.