Joe Miller is stomping his feet in frustration that the state Elections Division will not change their rules just to make him happy. Update!



They sent the ballots where?

 From the Juneau Empire:

Republican candidate Joe Miller is accusing the state Elections Division of moving the write-in ballot count beginning Wednesday from Anchorage to Juneau.

State elections officials say the count has always been planned for Juneau.

Miller's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, sent the state Division of Elections a letter calling the Juneau location "inconvenient," and suggesting that the write-in count instead be done in Anchorage.

Most of the observers they want to use are from Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley or Fairbanks, he said.
"By removing the ballot count from Anchorage to Juneau, the state is adding tens of thousands of dollars in costs to the campaign in travel and lodging," the attorney wrote.

Elections Director Gail Fenumiai denied the location had been moved.

"It was never changed, it was always going to be in Juneau," she said.

Her office did not consider moving the write-in count after receiving the Miller campaign's letter last week, she said.

"I'm not sure why the state would do that if the ballots are already here in a secure facility, where they have been since election night. This is where the ballots come following every election," she said.

"This is onerous and essentially chills and infringes the Miller campaign's right to meaningfully observe the ballot count," Van Flein stated in the letter.

Okay this is just hysterical!  So in other words, Miller is pissed because the recount is going to take place in the same location where the ballots currently are, instead of loading them on a plane and sending them to a location that is more convenient for Joe Miller and his gang of thugs to stand over the ballot counters as they do their job and intimidate them into throwing him the election?

Kind of hard to be schoolyard bully when the people you want to bully won't come to your schoolyard isn't it "Oh Vaguely Bearded One?"

Update: Miller sues over spelling.

Miller is asking a judge to stop the state from making a judgment on a voter's intentions if the voter wrote in something other than "Murkowski" or "Lisa Murkowski." State law allows no leeway for other spellings, his lawsuit says.

I seem to remember SOMEBODY complaining that Lisa Murkowski was not respecting the will of the people. Yet when the people speak in a way that is not in their favor, Miller has no problem trying to have votes that are clearly for Murkowski thrown out because of a missing letter or inaccurate spelling.