Lawyers Depart Alaska as Miller’s Chances Dim

[Swede]

The lawyers have started leaving.

That is perhaps the surest sign that Joe Miller’s chances of becoming the next senator from Alaska are evaporating. With each passing day that election workers here in the state capital manually count write-in votes cast for Senator Lisa Murkowski, it appears increasingly likely that Alaskans spell too well for Mr. Miller’s math to work.

Assisted by lawyers sent by the Republican National Senatorial Committee, the Miller campaign set out to challenge every smudge, stray mark and misspelling they could find (and, often, only they could find) on write-in votes that appeared to be for Ms. Murkowski.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/lawyers-depart-alaska-as-millers-chances-dim/?partner=rss&emc=rss

[somone]

1. Sarah's little crony is toast

[Angry Dragon]

2. He may need those lawyers

He should be sued for false arrest of that reporter
He employed those guards

[Old and In the Way]

3. How'd that trip to Washington to measure the drapes work out for you Joe?

:rofl:

[tanyev]

4. And once the lawyers are gone, only the cockroaches are left.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Tx4obama]

6. Here's a link below to the Saturday end of day ballot totals

See comment #31 for the newest update:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4609904

They will be counting more tomorrow, I believe.

[Skittles]

7. beat it, ya loser

too bad the "winner" sucks too

[Tx4obama]

8. But it feel oh so good knowing that Palin's boy lost ;) n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Yes, it is.

In a way, I was kind of hoping old Joe would pull it off, because he would have been much easier to beat in 2016. I'm sure we will be stuck with Lisa Murkowski for life now, which saddens me deeply. As Scott McAdams said during the campaign, "When Lisa votes 'no,' she's just like Joe."

I have little doubt that strings were pulled within the Division of Elections to smooth the way for Lisa, allowances that were made for her that were never made for earlier write-in candidates. I also have no trust of the Diebold GEMS method of counting votes which is in effect here. Every election since 2004, at least, has produced weird anomalies in the vote counts. This year it appeared that based on the number of ballots counted the turn-out was very low, one of the lowest mid-term election turnouts on record here, even though all of the campaigns had lots of enthusiasm and excitement. Anecdotal reports were that the voting stations were busy all day, at least here in Anchorage. I'm not going to get all conspiratorial, but we had troubles with the 2004 election, as well, when Lisa apparently defeated Tony Knowles, despite the fact that he was ahead in the polls up until the day of the election.

Things that make you go "hmmm..."