I admit, when the results for Alaska's Senate race the day after the election I was surprised. Ted Stevens (R-AK) had a lead in the reported vote totals despite the fact that he had just been convicted of 7 felony counts.
Well, it turns out that those totals were not quite complete. There were a number of absentee and provisional ballots that had not been counted. Today about half of the 90,000 outstanding ballots were counted, and Mark Begich is now ahead. Good news for Alaska and the Senate.
UPDATE: Final count today. The Anchorage Daily News reports that the trends favor Begich based on the counties where the uncounted votes come from.
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