What was once a 3,200 vote margin has disappeared, and Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Federal Prison) now trails in his re-election bid:
The elections division still has over 10,000 ballots left to count today and thousands more through next week, but the latest numbers show Mark Begich leading Sen. Ted Stevens 125,019 to 125,016.
The new numbers, reflecting nearly 43,000 absentee ballots counted today, are from all over the state. Election night, Ted Stevens led the Democratic Begich by about 3,000 votes.
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The state today is counting a total of about 60,000 absentee and questioned ballots.
The Division of Elections said it expects to count roughly 35,000 additional absentee and questioned ballots over the next week.
If today’s result is any indication of how the absentee ballots are going to break, Stevens is toast.
[...] night, Mark Begich had just inched barely inched ahead of Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Convicted Felon) in the Alaska Senate [...]