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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
the election results in Alaska: 40% total write in
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Incumbent Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate after losing in the Republican primary to Joe Miller.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110302555.html
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears to be winning a write-in campaign to keep her seat, according to unofficial election returns posted Wednesday morning. If victorious, she would be the first U.S. senator elected by write-in vote in more than half a century...
The final ballot counting could take weeks. Officials must verify how many of the write-in votes were cast for Murkowski, who opted to fight for her seat after losing to tea party favorite Joe Miller in the Republican primary.
But with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Miller had captured only 34 percent of the vote. Write-in ballots accounted for 41 percent of the vote, and Democrat Scott McAdams had received 24 percent.
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Sounds like around 40% of voters opted to go with a write-in ballot, presumably to vote for Murkowski; if so, and if the current percentages for the other candidates stay at 34% and 24% respectively, she will have won the election and kept her Senate seat.