MSNBC: Write-In Votes are Ahead in Alaska!

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Write-In Votes - 39%

Joe "Totalitarian" Miller - 34%

Scott McAdams - 25%

My understanding is that write-in votes are not revealed until count is over?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/candidates-name-spells-trouble-on-alaskas-ballot-forms-2123629.html

Candidate's name spells trouble on Alaska's ballot forms
By David Usborne, US Editor
Wednesday, 3 November 2010

As votes were counted in America's tumultuous midterm last night, nowhere was there more scope for chaos in the complex counting process than in Alaska, where election supervisors were warning that declaring a winner in the US Senate race may not take a few hours, but perhaps days or even longer.

The problem is the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski and her exotic name. After losing the Republican primary contest to the Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she decided to keep running as a "write-in": her name did not appear on ballots last night but voters were free to write it down anyway.

Officials said that the law gives them 15 days to certify a winner. The last polls suggested that Mr Miller, Ms Murkowski and the Democrat candidate, Scott McAdams, were in a dead heat.

But there is worse: after the courts in Alaska ruled last week that election workers could hand voters a list showing the names of write-in candidates as they enter the voting booths, Miller supporters rushed to register themselves as last-minute runners just to dilute whatever advantage the lists might give to Ms Murkowski. Suddenly there were well over 150 write-in candidates in the race.

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1. Here's to hoping they can all spell.