One week later, more than one-quarter of Alaska votes still haven't been counted (News-Miner)

[struggle4progress]

By Rena Delbridge
<Fairbanks Daily News-Miner>

FAIRBANKS — More than a fourth of all votes for state and federal races still have to be counted in Alaska — and the race for U.S. Senate and several state contests are hanging in the balance.

To this point, official totals only include votes cast at the polls Nov. 4.

At last count on Sunday afternoon, 90,635 ballots had been received but needed to be counted. Those include absentee ballots, early voting and questioned ballots, state Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said ...

Absentee ballots — the state sent out 44,900 — had to be postmarked Nov. 4, and will be accepted through Nov. 19. Other absentee options, such as in-person absentee voting, voting by fax and special-needs voting, also remain to be counted, Fenumiai said ...

http://newsminer.com/news/2008/nov/11/one-week-later-more-one-quarter-alaska-votes-still/

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[babylonsister]

1. How many people are counting, about 2?

Maybe they need help.

[Parche]

2. 2?

who was counting them ....caribou barbie, and Trig?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

3. From what I can gather

what they've been doing over the past week is going through and making sure there are no double votes. It looks from this picture like people are actually working on it, but I agree, it seems like in past years things moved a little faster. http://www.adn.com/election/story/585074.html

[99th_Monkey]

4. I think it just takes longer to sift through ballots to pick only the ones you WANT to count ~nt~