re: #167 sattv4u2

iirc,, Alaska rules on “write in” votes states something in the order that the name (written is) has to be spelled exactly.
SPECULATION ,, “a” ballot counter could accept a Murkowski vote if spelled wrong (if that counter was sympathetic to her) OR “a” counter could disqualify a ballot if the voters handwriting was bad (making it appear it was spelled wrong)

I sure miss the hanging chads!!!

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The rules released last week by the alaska board of elections allowed subjectivity…………. but Miller’s crowd just want to throw out s many Murkowsski or Murkkowski votes as possible - hoping that will keep them in the running.

“The guidelines say poll workers must consider the voter’s intent when determining whether to count a ballot for a write-in candidate.

The Miller suit says, according to state election law, that a write-in vote can’t be accepted if the voter did not correctly write either the full name or last name of a candidate; the voter wrote a candidate’s name incorrectly, or misspelled it; or the name written on the ballot is not the name used on the candidate’s certificate of candidacy.”