In Alaska, the election isn't quite over. Votes must be manually examined due to the success of write-in candidate Lisa Murkowsky, who may well have defeated Tea Party-supported Republican Joe Miller. But write-in candidates — where the name must be spelled out rather than simply checked — face particular difficulties. From MSNBC:
Shortly after the second day of write-in ballot counting began in the race, a Miller observer challenged a vote for Murkowski that appeared to have her name spelled and printed correctly, though the "L" in "Lisa" was in cursive handwriting.
Murkowski camp cries foul in ballot count [MSNBC]
