Could Alaska's endless election night end this Wednesday?

Look for the needle to move on Alaska's landmark U.S. Senate race and other tight contests this week, with the Division of Elections planning to tally more than half of the uncounted ballots Wednesday.

For days, the count has been frozen. Sen. Ted Stevens leads Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by about 3,000 votes with roughly 30 percent of the ballots remaining to be counted, including:

• 61,000 absentee votes.

• More than 20,000 questioned ballots.

• 9,500 early votes.

Of those, at least two-thirds of the absentee votes and nearly all the early votes are expected to be counted Wednesday, said Division Director Gail Fenumiai.


Personally I have very little confidence that this controversy will be put to rest Wednesday. There are simply too many things that don't seem to add up.

For instance why was the turnout the second lowest in Alaska's history for a year with a Presidential election when we had both the exciting Barack Obama and our own governor in the race?

Why were the poll numbers so different from the actual voter numbers?

And where are ALL of these absentee ballots coming from?

Now the reason that I ask that last question is because of something that I remembered hearing when I snuck into the Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage. The leader of the Republican party up here, Randy Ruedrich, was really stressing the importance of absentee ballots and claiming that getting those distributed would really help the Republicans be victorious. I remember at the time thinking it was odd to focus so much on absentee ballots rather then to encourage them to vote early or to stress how important it was for them to vote on election day.

It may just be that my tinfoil hat is too tight but that statement still bothers me.

I got this video from Black Box Voting:



This is what we have to watch out for. If Alaska's vote is being stolen, THIS is how it is being done.