Last week's results for the U.S. Senate race in Alaska showed 41% of the voters chose a write-in candidate while roughly 34% went for Joe Miller, with Senator Lisa Murkowski being the write-in candidate. However, since there is no guarantee all the write-in votes went to Senator Murkowski, the write-in votes have to be sorted out to decide how many the Senator will get.
So, the process of going through the write-in votes started today, and there has been some coverage of Mr. Miller's campaign using legal channels to make sure only write-in votes with Senator Murkowski's name correctly spelled are accepted. Unsurprisingly, I've noticed some of the tweets written about him, trying to label him as a sore loser. Patterico at Patterico's Pontifications, on the other hand, notes the clarity of Alaska's laws when it comes to counting write-in votes.
If the law is crystal clear on what can be and cannot be counted as a vote in an election, why shouldn't it be followed? If Joe Miller is working to insure the law is followed, then why is he being criticized as a sore loser? Considering it was Senator Murkowski who lost the Republican primary in the first place, why isn't she being called the sore loser in the race?
I won't deny it: I hope Joe Miller wins the race and becomes Alaska's next United States Senator, but I hope more that the law in Alaska is being followed when it comes to the counting of the write-in votes.
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