Perhaps like others of you out there, I was checking this afternoon at the Alaska election return website to see if there was any other movement on the Stevens-Begich numbers. After I saw that wasn't happening I checked in to see what the deal was and when the rest of the counting was going to take place.

This is what I found from an article in the Anchorage Daily News ...

The state still needs to count at least 15,000 questioned ballots and an estimated 25,000 absentees. With all the absentee votes coming in, this will be one of the biggest turnouts, if not the biggest in terms of ballots cast, the state has ever seen. That's despite questions in the media and on blogs about why turnout appeared low on Election Day.

Most regional elections headquarters will count their remaining ballots on Friday. But the most populous region, based in Anchorage, won't count its ballots until either Monday or Wednesday, state elections chief Gail Fenumiai said.

To get some perspective, it was roughly 60,000 votes counted on Wednesday that accounted for the roughly 4,000 vote swing from Stevens to Begich.