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3 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Control of the US Senate could hang in limbo for weeks as America’s election fate may come down to a slow-motion vote count across Alaska’s frozen tundra.
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fate → hang → tundra
There are 600,000 voters scattered across a vast expanse of 586,000 square miles, and Alaska’s unusual ballot-counting rules and a legal fight over the contest could delay the result for days or even weeks.
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rules → be → days
The state’s Senate race between Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola could prove pivotal in determining which party controls the chamber.
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party → prove → chamber
“We will [not] know who is going to win Alaska [until] two weeks after Election Day,” predicted pollster Sean Trende, a polling analyst at RealClearPolitics and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, which organized an Election Watch briefing Oct. 20.
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which → know → briefing
“It will be a toss-up until the last ballots come in from the Alaskan bush by two-prop engine, and then put it through like five rounds of ranked-choice voting.”
The reasons have to do with Alaska’s unique characteristics and an election season with tossup races even in traditionally Republican states.
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reasons → come → states
At least one Alaska family, the Bondys, traveled by dogsled on an eight-hour, 225-mile trek in order to cast their ballots, as featured in the 2016 documentary OneVote.
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family → travel → documentary
Alaska’s rural votes come in by plane in a state that has 16 times as many aircraft as any other.
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that → come → other
Ballots postmarked by Election Day must be received within 10 days to count — 15 days for overseas ballots.
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Ballots → postmark → ballots
When former Alaska state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the current candidate for governor in a tossup race, won his first election in a nail-biter back in 2012, he had to wait for overseas ballots from as far as Bahrain and Cambodia to finally ice his win.
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ballots → win → win
There’s a lot of military voters and military families here,” said Glenn Wright, a political scientist at the University of Alaska Southeast
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Wright → ’ → Alaska
“That’s how things come and go.
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things → ’ → ?
A lot of supplies are coming in in the summertime by boat, by barge, by ferry boat.
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lot → come → boat
They’re flying ballots in and out.”
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They → fly → ballots
Alaska’s ranked choice voting is also likely to slow the count, as election officials reexamine ballots to reallocate them when voters’ initial first-choice candidates don’t make the cut.
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candidates → rank → cut
The Justice Department filed suit this month to invalidate the result if Sullivan loses, citing the appearance of a second candidate — retired elementary school teacher Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. — on the ballot as an attempt to siphon votes.
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Sullivan → file → votes
President Trump has demanded that Peltola drop out of the race after it was reported her campaign engineered the scheme.
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campaign → demand → scheme
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