Alaska election officials hand counted the write-in votes to see what names were on them; using a voter intent standard they allowed ballots that had minor misspellings to count for Murkowski, which gave Murkowski a lead of more than 10,000 votes.
Alaska election officials hand counted the write-in votes to see what names were on them. They was using a voter intent standard. They allowed ballots. These ballots had minor misspellings to count for Murkowski. Murkowski gave Murkowski a lead of more than 10,000 votes.