Earlier this week, Must Read Alaska called the Alaska congressional race for Nick Begich. Now, a national elections analytics organization agrees: There are not enough remaining ballots to be counted to pull Rep. Mary Peltola ahead.
Begich has 152,545 votes and Peltola follows with 143,370. The other two candidates share about 15,400 votes
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The Division of Elections has more votes to count in the race that ended on Nov. 5.
“This victory belongs to the people of Alaska,” Begich said. “Our state has immense potential, and now is the time to responsibly unlock the resources that make Alaska a cornerstone of America’s path to prosperity.”
Peltola sent out a fundraising letter saying that she still has a path to victory and asking for people to send her money.
“Democrat Mary Peltola is closing the gap over her Republican challenger, Nick Begich III, with every new batch of votes counted,” her fundraising letter said. “With more than 20,000 votes still left to be counted, Mary has a narrow path to close the gap and win! But in a race this close, every single vote counts! Final results likely won’t be known until November 20th, when the ranked-choice results are tabulated and released.”
Peltola wrote, “Our voter protection team is on the ground fighting to ensure that every Alaskan’s vote is counted and their voice is heard. Can we count on you to rush a donation today to ensure we have what it takes to fight for every last vote and help Mary close the gap?“
Thank you Suzanne for your earlier (and accurate) information while we waited for the official call. It saved a lot of us from high blood pressure over their prolonged vote count. One down and now Daddy’s Little Princess to go……
I guess they forgot about the rank choice part to decide this race. You both have more confidence in this than I do. After the 2010 shenanigans of the murkowski write in. I don’t have any faith in division of elections.
How can they not be done counting? Florida was done the same day with such a higher population.
I do not care what organization calls the race. RCV is involved. No one knows, or can predict when it is down to the last two.
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And, the ballot counting is still going on, so that lead Begich has could disappear suddenly.
HA..HA FOR Petola,She’s running scared and very delusional about the final count…Somehow sending her more money??? AFTER the election will not CHANGE the vote..which has already been done and taken place…only the counting will change. She is HISTORY and she knows it..She needs to go back to her village and support them as they’ll need it..Living in Anchorage will not change the vote. She failed in all aspects, She NEVER did replace D Y. Everything she voted for, went against everything he was for with maybe exception of one or two items.
Exactly how do you “fight” for votes after they have already been cast by legally registered voters?
She must mean that because the AK DOE does not maintain accurate, legal voter registration lists with valid addresses, there are plenty of extra ballots that need to be counted as valid votes.
Alaska leaves additional weeks past the election, and a pool of extra ballots to “correct” the outcomes of elections because voters might stray from what our leaders deem the best governance for us is.
Notice how Peltola cleverly fails to mention how sending her more money now will change all those votes that have already been cast weeks ago….
A rule thumb in elections: the longer the race is dragged out, the more votes democrats are miraculously able to find.
Does Begich have people watching this it seems like republicans in this state never watch anything they just accept things I actually hope trump does not pick dunleavey for anything I have never seen the guy ever say anything bad about rcv he has done. nothing to clean up the rolls if he has maybe somebody can tell us what he has done all we here is what peltola is doing to steal the election we here nothing about our side doing anything
Ya , so obvious now that these Dems have some how circumvented the vote and are not even hiding it at this point, . We have got some serious fruad issues in Alaska and else where. Many of these people are corrupt as hell.Its all totally pathetic BS!!!