On September 10, a Superior Court in Alaska rejected a Democratic Party challenge to the ballot position of Eric Hafner, a candidate for U.S. House and a registered Democrat. See this story. Hafner is in prison and the Democratic Party had argued that if elected, he could not serve.

The Democratic Party didn’t want Hafner on the ballot because they feared some voters might vote for Hafner, instead of the party’s incumbent, even though Alaska uses ranked choice voting.