presumptive republican nominee mitt romney have served. actually, vice president biden hasn t either. the streak could be preserved in some way if governor romney s vis presidential pick is exmilitary. but none of the leading contender for that job served either. governor romney is getting a very vocal backing from actor brad pitt s mother. despite her son s strong support for president obama. jane pitt wrote a letter to springfield newspaper encouraging christians to vote for romney and say any christian who doesn t vote or cast a ballot with a write-in name essentially votes for president obama, whom she calls a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage. now her son brad often voiced his support for gay marriage. earlier this year, he said in an interview his mother is a very loving person who sometimes gets portrayed as a she-devil. finally, a massachusetts man made an impression paying off his final mortgage bill.
the ballot, the write-in name has to appear as it does in the candidacy fill-out form. and so you have this debate over which venue is the right place. but it s going to proceed in federal court, at least until the judge decides whether the venue should be moved over to state court. jon? jon: so as more ballots are counted, are we seeing anything different? yeah, today we saw something interesting. later in the day we saw that the percentage of challenges to ballots that were filled out with lisa murkowski s name spelled correctly actually dropped and so that s good news for the murkowski team because it shows that the number of ballots that are unchallenged is continuing to go up. 50 some thousand midday and that s going up each and every hour as we see fewer and fewer challenges to ballots where the name is spelled correctly. seeing the body language of the people challenging votes it seems like they are not quite as engaged and challenging as many ballots. this thing, you know,