On April 4, the Alaska Supreme Court put out an order in State v Alaska Democratic Party, S-16875. It says that the lower state court was correct, when it ruled that the party has a right to let independent candidates run in its primary. Here is the 5-page order. The Court will write a full opinion later. Chief Justice Craig Stowers wrote separately to say that he doubts that he agrees with the majority, but that he will postpone his decision until the full opinion is written. The Court released this order only a few days after the hearing, because it was aware that election officials and candidates needed to know the rules as soon as possible.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
The PERVERSION of the 1st Amdt gets worse —
regarding the alleged power of a faction/fraction of all PUBLIC electors to dictate how the PUBLIC nomination/election system works.
Will the HACK parties now also attempt to dictate ALL other stuff connected with elections ???
One more series of MORON cases for SCOTUS to OVER-RULE — due to earlier SCOTUS MORON JUNK opinions.
The Superior Court did not set the ballot format, but said that voters should be clear as to what the relationship between the candidate and the party was. Remember that Alaska has a voluntary blanket primary.
In 2016, any voter could take an ADL ballot (Alaska Independence/Democratic/Libertarian ballot), while Republicans and nonpartisan and undeclared voters, could take a Republican ballot.
On the ADL ballot, a voter could choose which party’s nomination to participate in. While the Democratic Party could permit Ronnie Republican to vote in their nomination, Ronnie Republican might not want to associate with the Democrats. Under the current ballot format the D candidates would have a (D) next to their name, and RR could know to avoid them. But now a candidate seeking the Democratic nomination might be a (D), but rather an (N) or even a (U). RR might be tricked into voting for Nancy Nonpartisan or Ulysses Undeclared.
In the general election, a Republican or any voter voter should be able to determine who nominated a candidate who is appearing on the ballot by virtue of that nomination.
So the ballots will be so confusing, that Alaska should do the wise thing and adopt Top 2.