Discussion for article #230040
I might feel a little confidence if it was only 4K but 8K is a lot to make up with only 53K votes to count.
If it was 53k absentee ballots from the remote areas where Begich at least claims to have very strong support, I’d feel better; but those are only 32k. There’s no particular reason to think that the “questioned” ballots, which presumably are from walk-in voters in places that have already been counted, are much if any in favor of Begich.