It’s taken a week of hand-counting and lots of legal squabbling from both sides, but it looks as if Lisa Murkowski is going to become the first write-in candidate elected to the United States Senate in 50 years.  The write-in ballots were outnumbering those cast for the major party candidates, but nobody could say for sure that Murkowski was winning until they were all counted.  Well, the votes have been counted, and Lisa Murkowski is Alaska’s new Senator.

There are still some 8153 disputed ballots, but they don’t matter.  Murkowski is roughly 10000 votes ahead of Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, and the 700 or so uncounted ballots won’t make a difference in the race.  Murkowski is officially one of two Senate representatives to Alaska.

No matter what you might think about Murkowski, Miller, or the state of Alaska in general, there’s no denying that Murkowski’s write-in win is proof that democracy still works.  If the people want something, it generally happens.  After all, when the voters didn’t like either major party candidate, they were free to write in their own.  They did so, with gusto, and in the process they have made electoral history for the great state of Alaska.

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