Alaska Senate Race May Come Down to a Spelling Bee: Can You Spell Murkowski?

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There are 92,000 absentee ballots in Alaska. These ballots will be held to a close scrutiny that comes down to one election rule--correct spelling. Since Lisa Murkowski was a write in vote, the voter must know how to spell her name exactly. However, Alaskan election officials have ignored the spelling rule to give Murkowski voters a pass. They are counting votes if they can tell intent, which means there are a ton of Murkowski voters that didn't care enough about the voting laws concerning write in candidates to learn how her name is spelled.

Joe Miller has now filed a lawsuit claiming state election officials are not enforcing the voting laws to give Murkowski an advantage.

"It is our view that the state improperly deviated from the text of the statute, and is substituting a subjective 'voter intent' standard and essentially repealing the legislative objective standard sub silentio," said Thomas Van Flein, Miller's attorney.

Sore loser Murkowski, who lost the primary, said she is optimistic she will win at the end of the day. She of course is the RINO in the race, and Miller is the Tea Party candidate.