On September 5, the Alaska Democratic Party sued the state elections office to remove Eric Hafner from the ballot as a candidate for U.S. House. See this story. The party claims he can’t serve if he is elected because he is in prison in another state.
Hafner’s ballot label is “Democrat”. Alaska has ranked choice voting, but apparently the Alaska Democratic Party feels Hafner’s presence on the ballot hurts the incumbent Democrat.
So what if he can’t serve? I could still send a message by voting for him.
Breaking! Dick and Liz Cheney endorse Kamala Harris and the Coach! We’re gonna win BIG!
Why are neolibs (including Tayble Stiff) so obsessed with suing everybody? They deserve to lose the case for that alone.
I never thought I’d say this but Gaia bless the Cheney’s!!!
Now I know it says that he is a Democrat and even further to the left than Peltola, but hear me out:
“Between July 2016 and May 2018, while residing in the Mariana Islands to escape the long arm of the law, Hafner made threats to numerous individuals located in and around Monmouth County, N.J. and elsewhere. According to the Department of Justice, the victims were elected officials, judges, police officers, attorneys, and their families. Hafner sought to extort $350,000 from some of his victims. Hafner also made false bomb threats to an elected official’s office, a county courthouse, a police department, two law firms, and a business.”
Someone who does this can’t be all bad.
He ran as GOP before.
You can’t be domiciled in prison. The location of the prison is irrelevant. His Mom ran for Congress in Alaska. Maybe if he is paroled she can move to Alaska and he can live with her.
Why can’t you be domiciled in prison? What about death row and lifer inmates who would otherwise be homeless?
QUALIF QUESTION FOR A CAND CAN NOT ARISE UNTIL OFFICE TERM BEGINS — IF IF IF THE CAND IS ELECTED ???
NEW YORK!!!
Are the Democrats not worried what kind of message this sends about their incumbent – that their candidate is so bad that they are worried about an out of state prisoner drawing away votes?
PRISONER –
MAY ALWAYS GET A PARDON / A HABEAS CORPUS / NEW TRIAL / ETC
I don’t think the attorneys are being honest. They say: “Hafner’s presence … will confuse voters … with an additional candidate on the ballot…”. The voter confusion argument doesn’t work here. Alaska prints the candidate’s party on the ballot, so voters will see that incumbent Peltola is a registered Democrat. And Alaska allows you to vote for multiple candidates in a ranked list. When Hafner is eliminated in tabulation, votes for him will be transferred to the next names on his voter’s ballots.
Furthermore, Hafner’s name was already on the primary ballot, and over 50% of voters selected the preferred Democrat instead, while Hafner received less than 500 votes. This is strong evidence that primary voters were not confused about who was who.
The Democrats should assert their rights under Eu v San Francisco and petition to have the “Democrat” label removed. He would stay on the ballot, but not have a political designation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-big-change-texas-republicans-191140869.html
TX ELEPHANTS – CHAOS FACTIONS – ESP RE SPEAKER TX STATE H REPS
WHAT SAYETH J.R. ???
Term, what about your state? What are you trying to tell us? Use your words.
Democrats are ready to rig another election!
Alaska has the communist friendly RCV.
RCV is no more communist friendly than FPTP, and arguably a good deal less.
Alaska elected a communist rep because of RCV.
Once again, the Democratic Party leadership is “protecting democracy” by denying it to everyone else. Just ask the Greens…
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
OLDE BAN POST — RCV FATAL DEFECTS — ESP WITH SINGLE PERSON OFFICES
@Ron
Alaska elected a communist rep via RCV. Correlation does not imply causation. You can’t blame the method of voting – fraudulent application notwithstanding – for the outcome of an election.
It makes vote tallying more complicated, which makes it easier to cheat.
They shouldn’t remove him from the ballot. Only difference between his situation and Trump is he is already incarcerated and the other will be after the election.
You wish, nigger.
All you White people (and Jews) in America will one day be slaughtered to the last. I hope its on tv so I can eat popcorn and laugh at it.
Jews is the only part you got right, nigger. I won’t be watching tv when we kill you.
I’m voting for Harris because I hate America and she will screw it up for good.
You shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and Trump will win.
@Nuña,
Peltola is from the interior just like Don Young who was mayor of Fort Yukon. Her father was a pilot for Young’s first campaign. Her mother would travel with Young to bush villages and translate for him. Her mother with pregnant with Peltola at the time. Peltola was campaigning with Young before she was born.
Sarah Palin quit her job as governor. It should not be presumed that Alaskans were forgiving of that. Just because Peltola defeated Wasila Barbie it does not make her a commie-nist.
She’s a communist, plain and simple.
She’s a Democrat. Democrats are communists.
Alaska should drop RCV, and permit election in the primary by majority. If no candidate receives a majority the leading candidates with cumulative support would advance to the next round (e.g. secondary election). The advancing candidate with the least votes would set a threshold. The remaining candidates could coalesce their support to exceed the threshold and qualify additional candidates for the next round.
Candidates may withdraw but this would not advance other candidates.
Repeat as necessary.
Funny, it’s almost like the Democrats aren’t confident that their candidates can beat convicted felons.
How odd… 🤣
We’re pretty confident we can beat convicted felon Trump.
Again, though, if Hafner is kicked off the ballot, then the GOP will have to convince Richard “Von” Mayers to drop. That would mean that the 4th person on the ballot would be Lady Donna Dutchess, a non-partisan. XD
That name sounds so fake. What an ridiculous election season we are having…
Sounds completely real to me.