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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010 Despite loss in Alaska, Miller presses on
Senate candidate, in a long shot, takes case to court alleging fraud
BY SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR Much of America may have
moved on, but JoeMiller has not. More than a week after the last vote was counted in Alaska’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, the Republican nominee contin- ues to press his case in court in hopes of grabbing back a victory that once seemed inevitable. Never mind that the incum-
bent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), has already declared that she made history by mounting the first successful write-in cam- paign for Senate inmore than 50 years.Or that theAlaskaRepubli- can Party has called on Miller to “end his campaign in a dignified manner.” Or that there is but a sliver of a chance he could win even if all his court challenges prove successful. Miller, a tea party favoritewho
beat Murkoswki in the GOP pri- mary, has alleged bias on the part of state officials as well as voter fraud, arguing that some of the ballots have suspiciously similar handwriting.He has attacked the state Division of Elections for accepting minor misspellings of Murkowski’s name. He has com- plained that the hand-count of the write-in ballots started too early to give him enough time to train his volunteers to monitor the outcome. And he has asked for a hand
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recount of all the ballots, saying the machine-counted votes that went largely for him should re- ceive the same scrutiny — and potentially benefit of the doubt— as the write-in ones cast for Murkowski. “LisaMurkowski’s were count-
ed by hand, allowing those not automatically tallied by the vot- ingmachines to be reviewed and counted. If Miller’s ballots were given the same review, he will likely gain numerous votes,” Ran- dy DeSoto, a Miller campaign spokesman, said in an e-mail. According to the state’s unoffi-
cial results, Murkowski won a solid victory with about 40 per- cent of the vote. Miller received about 35 percent, and 23 percent went to Democrat Scott McAd- ams, who has conceded defeat. Miller’s campaign has flagged about 8,000 votes as problematic
A short time later, Miller, a
former government attorney, ac- knowledged that in 2008 he had used work computers for cam- paigning purposes and lied about it. His image also took a hit when hispersonal security guardshand- cuffed a reporter who wanted to askMiller about the controversy. Miller’s most ardent support-
ers say they are concerned by the allegations of fraud and negli- gence—and thatmore is at stake than the outcome of one race. “I don’t think it’s a win or lose
for him at this point,” said Greg Pugh, a campaign volunteer from Wasilla. “What he’s trying to say is, there were certain anomalies that have happened and the law has not been upheld.Hewants to see that the election process has integrity for future elections.”
Unanswered question State officials have vigorously
defended their process, which they say has been guided by a desire to allow the maximum number of votes to be counted. On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Craig Camp- bell (R) calledMiller’s allegations baseless and harmful to the pub- lic trust. Miller’s campaign re- sponded by calling Campbell bi- ased and saying he took actions that favoredMurkowski. Last week, Murkowski’s cam-
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Sen. LisaMurkowski (R-Alaska), who lost to tea party favorite Joe Miller in the primary, went on to win a write-in campaign.
because ofmisspellings andother problems. But even if a judge sided withMiller and ordered all those votes thrown out, hewould fall short. “I’m just going to be very
straightforward here. I think that race is over,” said former con- gressman Norm Coleman, a Re- publicanwhowas defeated in the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minne- sota. That contest dragged on for eight months after Election Day as the candidates battled in court before Democrat Al Franken was declared the winner. “The counting’s been done. I’m
not sure that anything is going to change,” Coleman said in a C- SPANinterviewset to air Sunday. “Without criticizing Joe Miller, I would offer him advice . . . that I think it’s time to move on, that there’s notmuch you can gain by extending the process.”
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More at stake After losing the Republican
primary to Miller, Murkowski decided to stay in the race as a write-in candidate. She blanket- ed the state to teach voters to spellhername, aneffort thatpaid off dramatically Nov. 2. To Miller’s ardent backers —
still reeling from the events that led to this point—his continuing fight isneither frivolousnor quix- otic. It is a principled stand by a manwhose challenge of an estab- lishment candidate they view as too moderate inspired a conser- vative groundswell. Indeed, just threemonths ago,
Miller seemed a shoo-in. He was so confident that inSeptemberhe tweeted, “Think I’ll do some house-hunting while I’m in D.C.” That dispatch was followed a few moments later by, “Guess I should pick out some office furni- ture, as well, while in D.C.”
paign jumped into the legal bat- tle, asking to intervene in a dis- pute that has largely taken place between Miller and the state. Murkowski argues that if the race is not certified quickly, she could lose the seniority shewas allowed to keep despite having run against the Republican nominee. For some of Miller’s backers,
there is but one question left: Should misspellings of a candi- date’s name count? Regardless of the outcome of the race, leaving that question unanswered would be a disservice to the public, said Eddie Burke, a tea party activist and radio talk show host from Anchorage. But Burke acknowl- edges that Miller’s political fu- ture could be at risk if he presses the case too long and fails. “He has two things to worry
about. He has his future political reputation, but he also has right and wrong on the line. If wrong was done, then it needs to be corrected,” Burke said last week. “I think by next week, either Joe has to have some pretty compel- ling evidence to show the public, or he needs to just fold up his luggage and just call it a day.”
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