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[Joe] Miller appeals to Supreme Court
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 14, 2010 04:43pm |
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| Author | David Catanese |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Joe Miller is taking his challenge of the Alaska Senate race to the state Supreme Court.
On Friday, a state judge ruled against Miller's complaints about how the state conducted the election and counted write-in ballots.
But Miller said Monday that the lower court ruling allowing thousands of "exceptions" to the ballot counting law needed to be challenged.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski leads Miller by more than 10,000 votes, but Miller's suit contested at least 8,000 ballots.
"We have consistently asserted that the law should be followed strictly. The fact that the legislature stated that there should be 'no exceptions' to the ballot counting method is what, in our view, should govern this matter. Under the current ruling, there are now over 8,000 exceptions, a result everyone who favors the rule of law should question," Miller said in a statement. |
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