Most uncounted ballots will be tallied Wednesday (Alaska)

[brooklynite]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

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.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/election/story/585074.html

[BootinUp]

1. I wanna believe

that Alaska will not re-elect a convicted felon. O8)

[Buzz Clik]

2. The early and absentee votes will not reflect Stevens's conviction.

At that time, Stevens was ahead in the polls. This might not turn out as we hope.

[BootinUp]

5. Watch this video for a race update

looks good for us according to this report. It comes after the Palin story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHjr6KfkHnE

[Doctor_J]

7. all the pollsters were within a fraction in every other race

in this one they were off by 10 pts. This election was fixed, so no number of felony convictions will change the outcome

[pokercat999]

13. There is only one kind of felon, the word convicted is

redundant. Until convicted the person in question is accused or alleged and innocent until proven guilty. Once found guilty the person is a felon until they have served their time or paid the penalty a Court imposes at which time they become a FORMER felon or (if the speaker is a decent person) just a regular citizen.

REMEMBER THIS IT'S IMPORTANT

[Frances]

3. Is Alaska the most corrupt state in the U.S.?

How many elected officials in the state legislature and the federal Congress have been convicted?

And why does it take so long to count votes?

[Doctor_J]

6. Let's see. Ted Stevens, Sarah Palin, Don Young...

Is any other state even close?

[last_texas_dem]

9. Former Senator/Governor Frank Murkowski

seemed to be pretty corrupt as well.

[roguevalley]

10. Louisiana? Texas? Steven's own pollster says he's going to lose.

[Roland99]

4. Questioned ballots? Questioned by *whom* and for what reason(s)??

Questioned ballots are votes people cast on Election Day someplace other than their designated polling place. That might include an out-of-towner who wanted to vote for president, or someone who simply stopped by the wrong precinct.

There were *THAT* many?!?!

[Arctic Dave]

14. Lots of people work in remote places

and are out of town for Election Day. Myself being one of them. I actually recieved a call last night to verify my vote.

[CottonBear]

8. Why didn't they count the absentee and early votes over the weekend prior to election day?

What was stopping them? All I can think is that it's GOP corruption.

[iceman66]

11. Exactly.

Not only that - why wait more than a week after the election to count all the ballots?

They probably waited so long so they can control the result!

[brooklynite]

12. SOme state don't count any votes before Election Day...

Let's not jump to conspiracy theories without any information to justify them

[CottonBear]

15. Well, if that is the case, then they still had plenty of time to count those votes.

Other countries tally paper ballots in one day's time. Why can't we?