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Originally Posted by guyy
I think they have secret ballots up there. Theoretically, you could vote for Stevens and no one would be the wiser.
Everything i've heard or read says special election. It's different in Illinois, where Blagojevich will appoint someone
Finally and most importantly, there are absentee early and absentee ballots yet to be counted. Based on the known returns, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com projects Begich to win by 3,000 votes.
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I've lived in a town of 700 people for a few years and a town of 20,000 for a few more years, there wasn't anything anyone could do and have anyone be none the wiser...secret ballots or not
There's not a lot of coming and going from places like these, and that's exacerbated by the geography.
You get 90 votes against the town's sugar daddy in a town of 700 people and let's all start guessing how difficult or likely it'd be for the rest to suss them out. If people could be sure that at the end of the election, it'd be 570 against him then the dynamic would be different. Of course, I'm only saying that people might have felt more comfortable staying home than voting, not that people refused to vote for someone else because of what I'm talking about. It's one thing to hold your tongue, it's another to go against the tribe.
But I haven't seen the turnout. If it was really low I think my suggestion makes sense.