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Joe Miller Asks Federal Judge to Stop Alaska Senate Election CertificationRepublican Sen. Lisa Murkowski declared herself the victor in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, but her Republican challenger Joe Miller took action on Thursday to stop her victory from becoming official.An attorney for Miller on Thursday asked a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to keep state officials from certifying election results, according to reports.Thursday's injunction modifies Miller's original lawsuit challenging how the state handled Murkowski's write-in campaign, in which Miller argued it was illegal for the state to accept write-in ballots with any kind of errors.According to the state tally, Murkowski has a lead of about 10,400 votes. Even if the state threw out all of the write-in votes Miller's camp challenged, Murkowski would still lead by more than 2,000 votes.However, the Miller campaign is now arguing in its injunction that the volunteers they recruited to observe the vote count did not have enough time to be properly trained because the write-in vote tally started ahead of schedule. More
I still don't believe that 100,000 alaskans all spelled "murkowski" correctly. I just don't.
Miller Wins Reprieve…Federal Judge Halts Senate CertificationU.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline(AK) ruled Friday that Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller’s challenge to the counting of write-in ballots raises “serious†legal issues and is a matter for a state court to decide. Judge Beistline granted a temporary injunction to halt official certification of the Nov. 2 election — an action Miller is seeking — so long as Miller takes his case to the state court by Monday.
