At the Alaska special primary election for U.S. House last month, 4.55% of the ballots were invalid. See this story. The story lays stress on the problem that many ballots lacked the signature of a witness. The law requires two signatures, the voter’s signature plus someone else who witnessed the voter’s signature. In many cases the voter signed the outer envelope but there was no witness signature.
However, many ballots were invalid for other reasons. Some voters voted for more than one candidate, because the publicity about Alaska’s new election system emphasizes that the top four candidates will advance to the general election. Therefore, some voters believe they should vote for up to four candidates in the primary. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for the link.
More reasons to have NOOOO primaries.
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You fucking retard, the same thing could happen in the general.
As of now only three candidates have been certified by the Alaska Elections Division as write-in for the general special election on August 16, 2022. They included Ernest Thomas a Democrat and Dr. Robert Ornelas an American Independent (who is a native).
This mean there are two Democrats and two natives currently running for the House of Representatives in the single district of Alaska.
Reduce the rot errors by 1/2 or even 2/3 in primary run-off regimes or even 3/4 in P and G run-off regimes.
MUCH too difficult for 2.5 IQ expletive troll morons to understand.
In article: “With Sweeney blocked from the Special election ballot, path gets tougher for Palin and Begich in state’s first ranked election” by Matt Buxton, THE MIDNIGHT SUN reprinted in the Anchorage Press June 30 – July 6, 2022, page A-4 it states that “intervention of
Nick Begich’s campaign seems particularly weird,” … according to Tara Sweeney.
Now Mary Petola has a Democrat contender in Ernest Thomas the former President of Alaska State Government Union of employees.
Will the native vote which 24% of the Alaska electorate peal off from Mary Petola (a Democrat) and switch to Dr. Robert Ornelas (a former state chairman of the American Independent Party, who is campaigning for removal of Russians from Wrangell Island, Alaska).
It is clear that Nick Begich’s campaign attack in court against Sweeney getting on the Special General Election ballot will turn off the elector that backed Sweeney in down race ranked vote for Begich. Begich entry in the lawsuit cost him votes in the secondary choices.
The only early vote in the 40th House District in Alaska for the US House of Representative was for Foster.
Is second sig *material* ???
There is nothing in the article about invalidly marked ballots. That is conjecture by Richard Winger.
36% of rejected ballots were not witnessed or were improperly witnessed.
30% were problems with identifiers (SSNO or Drivers License) either a mismatch or not provided.
26% late ballots.
The underlying problem with all of these was the use of mail ballots.
Only 222 ballots appear to have been invalid (0.14%). An oddity is that 69 of the 222 were in HD-27. This doesn’t really make sense as it is an area in extreme eastern Anchorage.
Today I spoke with Brian Jackson of the Alaska Election Division. He told me that if a vote was reject for the signature issue they did not look if the ballot had additional errors on it. Also they are making rules as they go.Mark
@MS, There is a report from the Elections Division that shows the number of rejected ballots by cause then also includes a category of “deleted ballots”. These appear to be separate from rejected.
If you get a chance ask Mr. Jackson what a Deleted Ballot is and also why there were so many from HD-27.
Also what is the statutory or regulatory basis for removing Al Gross from from the special general ballot?