Last year, some voters who supported Joe Miller for U.S. Senate sued the state of Alaska, arguing that counting misspelled write-in votes for Lisa Murkowski violates the federal Voting Rights Act. That case is still pending. It is Rudolph v Treadwell, 10-cv-0268, in U.S. District Court. The parallel cases filed by Joe Miller himself were expedited and are already over with. The Rudolph case has not been expedited.
Rudolph and his fellow voter-plaintiffs argue that when the state said misspelled write-ins are valid (if voter intent could be determined) that is a change, and Alaska didn’t ask the Voting Rights section for permission to make that change (although the state did ask the Voting Rights Section to pre-clear its rule letting voters see the list of write-in candidates, and the Voting Rights Section did approve that). The state will probably argue that the state has always allowed misspelled write-ins to count. See this story.
The same attorney who filed Rudolph v Treadwell also filed a case in state court on January 10. It is Perry v Treadwell, 4FA-11-00973.
Again – see the 2002 HAVA act.
Even MORON State regimes are supposed to have an OBJECTIVE YES/NO definition of a LEGAL vote with each voting system.
NO guessing what some strange stuff on any ballot is supposed to mean ==== ILLEGAL vote — NOT to be counted.
i.e. NO ad hoc made up stuff as happened in the infamous Bush v. Gore stuff in Florida in 2000.
Is it legal for voters to wear arm bands with the candidates name ? I thought there was a rule forbidding any signs or anything within 100 feet of a polling place on election day ??