Joe Miller: Outrageous

US Senate candidate Joe Miller set up a toll-free phone number for voters to report voter fraud, which he said was rampant in the Alaska Senate campaign." Not only do we have evidence of electioneering conducted by multiple government contractors, but we’re also battling the state to ensure that laws were followed on Election Day," Miller said in an email blast sent today.

Joe Miller had sued to make sure Alaska's Division of Elections requires exact spellings of write-in candidate's names on ballots, as has been the precedent in prior elections. According to an Anchorage Daily News (ADN) report, the state has said it will exercise discretion over misspellings and name variations. Miller's suit was the opening salvo in what he predicted could be a lengthy and costly legal battle. Meanwhile a federal judge denied an injunction to immediately stop counting the write-in ballots. As of this writing, the ADN is reporting that the incumbent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski is carrying 98% of the write-in vote with 50% of the precincts counted.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “sunshine is the best disinfectant.” Now that we’re trying to clean up the Alaska election system with sunshine, we’re being called “frivolous” or “excessive.” Will you help us push for accountability and clear standards in this ballot count? Please donate to our efforts to ensure a legal and fair election in Alaska. What the media and entrenched politicians claim is frivolous, we find outrageous. Throughout this campaign, we’ve faced a highly-organized and highly-placed political machine in Alaska. Now we are hearing about outrageous voter fraud and corruption. In fact, the reports of voter fraud are so bad that we’ve set up a toll free number for voters to alert us to incidents at 1-866-446-4138. Not only do we have evidence of electioneering conducted by multiple government contractors, but we’re also battling the state to ensure that laws were followed on Election Day. Throughout the country, precinct registers are examined against the total number of ballots submitted. This is not a far-fetched idea, but a standard process conducted to ensure accountability. When we requested copies of the precinct registers to examine, we were told that the state was “too busy.” Now, we’re forced to ask a judge in Juneau to order the state to produce the precinct registers, a common practice in the rest of the country. We’re not trying to win by any means necessary or force Alaska to go through a long and painful ballot counting process. We simply want to see the rule of law upheld and sunshine open up these ambiguous and questionable tactics. When Lisa Murkowski announced she was running as a write-in candidate in September, she single-handedly sentenced the state to a divisive and expensive election. She made it clear in her announcement speech that she understood the difficulties and potential ramifications of running as a write-in candidate. Now when we ask that the state follow a clear and explicit law, the political machine – the one painstakingly built by her family – is pushing back and playing to a sympathetic media. We need your help in this fight. We’re going up against state bureaucrats, the media and powerful insiders to keep Murkowski entrenched in DC. Click here to donate $100, $75, $50, or $25 today to the Joe Miller for US Senate Recount Fund. We can depend on the fervor and desire of the American people to clean up corruption and end "politics as usual." Thanks for your continued support. Joe Miller Candidate, U.S. Senate Paid for by Joe Miller for US Senate Defense Fund