AK Stinks & MN's on Edge: So Here's What Can be Done to Try to Ensure Accurate 'Recounts'

[BradBlog]

Alaska Stinks & Minnesota's on Edge, So Here's What Parties and Citizens Can Do to Try and Ensure Election Results with Integrity There and Elsewhere

The election results being reported in Alaska still stink from top to bottom. While it may be true that fewer voters turned out to vote for Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Barack Obama on this year's Presidential tickets than turned out to vote for Bush and Kerry in 2004 --- even with Alaska's record increases in voter registration and voter participation during their primaries and unprecedented turnout during early voting --- it does strain credulity.

That's not the only vexing concerns about Alaska's election results which -- who knows? -- could be perfectly accurate. But, as always, rather than speculating on any of it, I suggest another way: Find out for certain who won and who lost, in such a way that no party or citizen would have reason to question the final results, by, among other things, counting the ballots --- all of them.

I've come to learn that's a nutty idea that only crazy people would advocate, but for all of you crazy people out there, here's what can be done to try and find out who really won or lost any particular race...

FULL STORY, LIST OF WHAT'S NEEDED FOR AN ACCURATE 'RECOUNT':
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6653

[Morning Dew]

1. question on your article

The state senator I spoke with --- who can't understand how it could be that polls predicted Democrats would gain 4 to 6 U.S. House seats in Alaska, but instead, according to Diebold and state election officials, currently seem to have lost 2 seats instead --- could simply be wrong in his belief that something strange is going on up there.

Alaska only has one Congressman - is this a typo or something?

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Maybe they meant pickups in the state legislature.

But that whole sentence is not quite right, if that's the case, because the Democrats actually gained seats in the state legislature.