On June 16, three of the four Alaska Democrats who had filed to run for U.S. House in the regularly-scheduled election withdrew their names from the ballot. This is to enhance the chances of the party having one and only one candidate in the August primary. See this story.
Ernest Thomas will continue as a write-in
to give Democrats a choice. He is one of the six Democrats of the 48 that ran on June 11, 2022.
How many threats/bribes for the 3 ???
Would it be legal for 1 candidate to donate money to another and have that second candidate (decide on their own, *wink *wink) to drop out and since he is out of the race take the campaign money for himself?
The three will be remembered here in Alaska!
Presumably the goal is to get Peltola into 3rd place so that she is perceived as the alternative to Al Gross.
Jim Riley,
The Special Election and the General Election are not overlapping time periods.
Mary will not get much benefit over Al with the departure of those three. The votes will believe that she is doing a
buying of her Election as U.S. Senator Clark did and it will backfire on her.
That was a bad move on here part. DEMOCRATS my write-in Ernest Thomas on
August 16, 2022, since his votes will be counted.
Sorry, I was asked who was Senator Clark.
ANSWER; William Clark of MT. YEAR 1899.
@MS,
I’m not sure what you mean by not-overlapping.
The special runoff, and general primary are the same day.
It could help Peltola in the special runoff if she is perceived as more favored than Gross. Remember he was the Democratic-favored candidate in the 2020 Senate election. Now they are trying to portray him as a turncoat who might not even caucus with the Democrats in Congress. But I don’t think it would be too helpful to have AOC or Pelosi come campaign in Alaska. Independent will sell better in Alaska than anywhere else, even Maine or Vermont.
@MS,
The district results for the special election use the current house districts. This was quite confusing since HD-28 which is currently in SE Anchorage, will be in Wasilla under the new map.
But what will they use for the August election when you will actually have legislative elections on the new boundaries.
It is my view that the rotation for the Special Election will be based on the states house district in place in 2020.
Who knows what the screw-up in Juneau,they screwed up the June 11 ballot s running two columns. I suggested only one column to Jackson. It did not happen.
Then we get electors that placed fill in ovals at both the left and right of the names. So we get an over vote. That hurt Palin the most out of the 48.
There was over 17% of the ballots so far counted that were rejected
.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/independent-al-gross-says-hes-031519128.html
Independent Al Gross says he’s ending Alaska House bid

BECKY BOHRER
Mon, June 20, 2022, 11:15 PM
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Al Gross, an independent running for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat, said late Monday that he is ending his campaign after a top finish in this month’s special primary.
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more threats and bribes ???