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>>>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.

[nerdgirl]

I may be mistaken here, but none of the legal precedents I’ve seen posted online about this have anything to do with misspelling, which is not consistent at all with the “no exceptions” part of the statute. X or check instead of filling in the oval? Yes. Misspelled name? No.

Any judge who thinks differently is legislating from the bench.