1. A torrent of Democratic absentee ballots could reverse Alaska’s election night vote counts adn.com/politics/2020/…
2. "More than 75,000 Alaskans have already cast absentee ballots in this year’s election — nearly one-fourth of the total number of votes cast in the state in the last presidential election, in 2016.
3. State elections officials say they won’t start counting those absentee ballots until a week after Election Day — meaning that Alaskans could be in for a long wait before they learn the final results of congressional and state legislative races.
4. But experts say there are some clues that should help lessen the suspense — namely the huge number of Democrats who, following a national trend, have cast their votes on absentee ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. Alaska candidates and political consultants say that means the Election Day vote will likely skew more conservative than the final results, and that Republicans are hoping to be comfortably ahead in the early tally.
6. This is not the year that you want to be waiting for those absentees to come in, if you’re a Republican candidate and you’re close or down on election night, said Mike Dubke, a Washington D.C.-area consultant who’s working on GOP U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s reelection campaign."
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