Posted: October 27, 2010
Pre-Election Challenge in Alaska Senate Race
In a three-candidate race for US Senator from Alaska, lawyers from the Republican and Democratic parties have joined together to file a lawsuit against the State Division of Elections alleging that the division allowed write-in candidate lists to be handed out at polling stations, and in some cases actually posted inside the voting booths themselves. State regulations explicitly forbid materials about write-in candidates within 200 feet of a polling station. State Superior Court Judge Pfiffner issued an opinion this morning granting a temporary restraining order stopping the distribution of write-in candidate names at polling stations. This ruling also applies to the posting of candidate names in the polling stations and verbal communications from poll workers to voters.
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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