Very astute observation. I think you have it correct with that one.
I don’t think the poster is correct. If they hand these lists out and the voter still doesn’t spell Murmooski’s name right, there may eventually be a ruling that it doesn’t count if misspelled.
If Alaska has a law that allows registration of write-in candidates, and Joe Blow goes to the polls with no intent to vote for Murmooski, what is the big deal? And if Joe Blow goes to the polls with the intention to vote for Murmooski, they’re going to count it for Murmooski whether Joe Blow spells it exactly correct anyway, short of a court ruling otherwise.
The problem, as I see it, arises with the really stupid voter who wants to vote for someone other than Murmooski but thinks the hand-out list is something he’s supposed to write in to complete the ballot, and then checks another candidate’s name as well - the one he actually wants to vote for. It seems much more likely that a dumbass rat druggie or welfare type would do that than a conservative, so the rat candidate is the one most likely to suffer as I see it because if you vote for two, neither counts.