HULK SMASH!
Hulk also sue for recount.
Hulk not proud.
I’ve no idea what you’re going on about, but here is the article in today’s paper.
and:
Anything new on the Tedster?
The Wasilla vote was counted today. Ted’s behing by 814 votes.
I’m seeing a glimmer of hope here. The largest block of votes to be counted are from Anchorage and Juneau. Anchorage split in the general election and Juneau always goes blue. We’ll know by Wednesday.
How the hell can it take so long to count that few votes?
If you read votes too quickly in Alaska, your fingertip gets blisters? I dunno. 
If they used their toes, they could double the speed.
I’ve answered this fucking question at least twice already in this thread. STATE STATUTE REQUIRES SPECIFIC WAITING PERIODS TO ALLOW FOR REMOTE AREAS TO GET THEIR BALLOTS TO THE POLLING CENTERS.
Yes, and seriously: just to inject a little reality, Alaska is bigass. It is metric bigass. In between the bigass is a lot of empty space, mountains, snow, rivers, ice, and bears. Note, however, that I didn’t say roads connecting one end of the bigass to the other — if you add up all the miles of interstate highway in Alaska, it’s fewer total miles than I-5 alone (from southern California to the Canadian border). The state capital is not accessible by road. In the scope of bridges to nowhere, Alaska has a lot more nowhere than bridges.
For reference, Alaska is the size of Texas, California, Montana and Kansas put together, with room left over for Rhode Island and the District of Columbia … but it has the population of Vermont.
In addition, some of the ballots being counted must be checked: some people sent in an absentee ballot and also voted in person, so many ballots are being questioned before being counted.
One other possible factor (that I couldn’t verify on the Division of Elections website): Alaska may have the same standard as the SoW, namely that a mail ballot must be postmarked on election day, but does not have to be received then. Given the conditions that Fish alluded to, it would make sense.
Even if state law doesn’t say that, I believe federal law requires all military absentee ballots postmarked by election day to be counted.
Correct. The drop dead date is the 19th, I believe. Ballots from villages have to be transported by bush plane to either Nome, Fairbanks, Anchorage or Juneau. With the weather what it is up here, planes can be delayed for considerable periods. I remember a few years ago when supplies didn’t reach some coastal areas for nearly two months.
Canada counts their votes in hours. It is bigger and has remote places too.
state fucking law!!!
WOULD MORE BRIDGES HELP? DOES ALASKA NEED MORE BRlDGES?
A series of inter-island bridges in the Aleutians would be nice…or even a series of tubes…
Canada has laws too, I bet. Just as big and remote as Alaska’s.
But I guess they’d be provincial laws, not state laws. Or Federal. Or is it Dominion?
I don’t know about the ‘fucking’ part though.
I like bridges. Tubes, not so much.