Even though there are still a few days left for absentee votes to arrive, the bulk of the 90,000 that remain should be tallied by the end of today. From the Anchorage Daily News:

A week after Election Day, about 30 percent of the votes that will decide the fate of embattled U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens still haven't been counted.

The Alaska Division of Elections expects to count most of the roughly 90,000 early, absentee ballots or questioned ballots remaining today.

Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in U.S. Senate history, leads Democrat Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage, by 3,257 votes.

Along with finally letting the rest of the country know whether Alaska decided to send a convicted felon back to Congress, is the lingering mystery of just how the numerous polls managed to be so spot-on with every other state in the country, but got it so wrong in the Alaska race, prompting a number of journalists to question the integrity of the Alaska voting process. From Propublica.org "The Mystery of the Missing Alaska Voters" :

On his number-crunching blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver noted that three polls conducted after the conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on corruption charges placed him at a considerable disadvantage to his Democratic challenger Mark Begich. But by at least the counts so far, Stevens was ahead by nearly 3,300 votes. Likewise, Ethan Berkowitz had a sizable lead over incumbent Rep. Don Young (R-AK), who is under investigation for ties to the same oil company at the heart of the Stevens conviction. But Young won.

The numbers have left some deeply suspicious. "I'm wondering if someone stole the body and blood of this election," one writer put it on a widely linked Huffington Post piece (with plenty of exclamation points). "Where are the votes? Something stinks at the Alaska Division of Elections." 

Not everyone finds the low turnout suspicious, with some sources pointing to colder than normal temperatures in Alaska on election day, news reports predicting long lines at the voting booths, the early calling of the election for Obama and McCain's concession speech before Alaska's polls closed.

Hopefully, by the end of the day, the final 30% of Alaska's vote will answer a lot of these lingering questions.