Alaska State Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) says he will introduce a bill to clarify which write-in votes are valid and which are not. See this story. One imagines that if Senator Wielechowski were ever to be a write-in candidate, he would not be comfortable with any law that requires write-in votes to be spelled perfectly.
Finally! It took THIS long for clarification? Hopefully, this law will pass so we can get SOME clarity on the issue. Maybe this law is too restrictive, but it is a first step towards solving confusion.
For folks who have in caves or in outer space for the last 8 years ——-
PUBLIC LAW 107–252—OCT. 29, 2002
HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002
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[42 USC 15481.] SEC. 301. VOTING SYSTEMS STANDARDS.
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(6) UNIFORM DEFINITION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A VOTE. — Each State shall adopt uniform and nondiscriminatory standards that define what constitutes a vote and what will be counted as a vote for each category of voting system used in the State.
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Written especially for the legislative, executive and judicial MORONS in the Florida regime in 2000 — Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).
2010 AK MORONS — with their AD HOC made up stuff — any different than the 2000 FL MORONS — with their AD HOC made up stuff — blasted in Bush v. Gore ???
How New Age EVIL/STUPID are the MORONS in the AK regime ???
The article does not say that he will introduce legislation, nor that it would relate to your musing about the spelling of Wielchowski.
He might look at Washington, where write-in votes for sore losers in the primary are not valid in the general election.
He might look at Hawaii where there are no write-ins but ballot access is relatively open.
He might look at Texas where there is no space on the ballot unless a write-in candidate has filed in advance of the election, and where lists of write-in candidates are placed in voting booth. You may recall that it was the Democrats who filed suit against the never before used procedure of distributing lists of write-in candidates and their party affiliation, which apparently led to what comes awfully close to electioneering, if not actually doing so.
Write-ins — 14th Amdt, Sec. 2 — still there.
Right to vote — denied, abridged — see your friendly dictionaries, regular and law.
Sec. 2 was worked on from Jan. to June in 1866 — in an effort to have universal adult male citizen suffrage – i.e. voters in ALL States.
Sorry ladies until the 19th Amdt.