Brad Blog:
This just in from Alaska, where thousands of new ballots continue to be found each day, since it was first reported that turnout in 2008 was 11% lower than in 2004.
Thousands of ballots, nearly a third of them, remain uncounted nearly a week after the election. Their numbers could explain the strange results so far in races --- such as those of the felonious Sen. Ted Stevens (R) and the under-investigation Rep. Don Young (R) --- for which pollsters had predicted decisive losses for the Republicans. Even with the newly acknowledged ballots and even with Alaska’s once-popular Gov. Sarah Palin and popular Sen. Barack Obama both on the Presidential ballot this year, turnout numbers still remain slightly below those from 2004.
The Anchorage Daily News, with numbers somewhat out of date from those now posted below, called it all “puzzling” over the weekend, and pointed out much of what we’ve detailed here in previous posts.
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3 comments:
With all other states reporting a higher voting turnout, hmm, sounds like a Rove manipulation.
Alaska and other States will soon know who won and poor Uncle Ted will be sitting in jail.
This is pathetic.
If the GOP can't get elections right without meddling, then the Cubans need to send over observers like what has happened to them in the past for their elections.
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