What’s the Matter With Alaska?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 7th, 2008 at 11:49 amThere’s a post up at the Washington Post’s site about some fishy numbers coming out of Alaska:
The final voter turnout numbers won’t be available until absentee ballots are counted, which could take at least another week. But this year’s total is not expected to eclipse Alaska’s 66 percent turnout in 2004 or its 60 percent clip in 2000. (This is especially odd given that Alaska’s Board of Elections saw a 12.4 percent hike in turnout for the August primaries, before Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was selected as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee.)
Alaska returns (without the uncounted absentee and contested ballots) show the McCain-Palin ticket garnering 136,348 votes. In 2004, President Bush got 190,889 votes, a “significant disparity“, the Anchorage Press reported. “These numbers only add to the oddity of this election in Alaska; in the run-up to Tuesday, Alaskan voters seemed energized to vote for a ticket with our governor on it, despite the barrage of criticism Palin faced.”
I’m not ready to hop on any sort of conspiracy bandwagon just yet, but we can all agree that it makes zero sense whatsoever that a state with its governor on one of the tickets wouldn’t see a huge resultant boost in turnout, right? Exceedingly odd.
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