votes. but it unclear how many of those write-ins will actually go to the incumbent senator lisa murkowski. meantime miller's team already filing a lawsuit over these ballots. dan springer has more live from skwrao*upb owe -- juneau, alaska, dan. >> reporter: we are seeing a unique look of democracy in action. an observer said what we are seeing here is not just a spelling contest, how to spell lisa murkowski, but a penmanship contest. one ballot was found out, because they couldn't tell if it was a spelled correctly. that ballot went into a challenge bin. this is where all the election workers are set up, two per table. they are also joined by two representatives, one from the miller campaign, and one from the lisa murkowski campaign. they are going through all 230,000 votes that were cast in this election, and they are putting them in different bins. bin number one is for someone who voted for a person other than a write-in candidate.