~~”Alaska law sides heavily with “voter intent”~~
Then why is Miller suing “to force exact spelling rule for write-in votes?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624637/posts
>>>Then why is Miller suing “to force exact spelling rule for write-in votes?”<<<
Hey, I voted for Miller... but the legal precedent in Alaska law clearly allows discretion from elections officials to accept misspellings and poor writing skills when inferring voter intent. Miller is suing to overturn that precedent. It’s a legal action taken by him to force the courts to, hopefully, decide in his favor.
I wish him luck. Sadly, it doesn’t look good for him at this point.
He is suing because (according to what I’ve read) the statute is very clear: write in votes must contain the name exactly as registered by the candidate, ‘with no exceptions’.