The write in oval must be filled, and the write in name must MATCH the write-in declaration.
That's Alaska law and the election commission is trying to make it's own law against the standing Alaska law.
Thank you, that is perfectly clear.
Wait for the judicial twisting to get it to say what they want. Where is the danged outrage? The alaska voters should be screaming their heads off, no matter for whom they voted.
Then again, too many voters throughout the country are willing to let morals and ethics die at the side of the road as long as they get their way!
Latest count is here http://www.adn.com/3771 If you click the full results link just below this, it will give date and time for the listed results. I think this is the absentee ballots that are showing up here.
The absentee overseas and Military I believe are not counted until 11/17.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I think they wanted to count these ballots ealier than originally, because they want to see how many military or overseas ballots to ‘reject’ so Murkowski will win. This count that is happening now was not supposed to begin before the 12th I believe, that would be Friday, then next Tuesday would be the military, so they couldn’t get enough info on how many military to disenfranchize unless they began this count earlier!
Alaska Statutes - Section 15.15.360.: Rules for counting ballots.
(a) The election board shall count ballots according to the following rules:
(1) A voter may mark a ballot only by filling in, making “X” marks, diagonal, horizontal, or vertical marks, solid marks, stars, circles, asterisks, checks, or plus signs that are clearly spaced in the oval opposite the name of the candidate, proposition, or question that the voter desires to designate.
(2) A failure to properly mark a ballot as to one or more candidates does not itself invalidate the entire ballot.
(3) If a voter marks fewer names than there are persons to be elected to the office, a vote shall be counted for each candidate properly marked.
(4) If a voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to the office, the votes for candidates for that office may not be counted.
(5) The mark specified in (1) of this subsection shall be counted only if it is substantially inside the oval provided, or touching the oval so as to indicate clearly that the voter intended the particular oval to be designated.
(6) Improper marks on the ballot may not be counted and do not invalidate marks for candidates properly made.
(7) An erasure or correction invalidates only that section of the ballot in which it appears.
(8) A vote marked for the candidate for President or Vice-President of the United States is considered and counted as a vote for the election of the presidential electors.
(9) Write-in votes are not invalidated by writing in the name of a candidate whose name is printed on the ballot unless the election board determines, on the basis of other evidence, that the ballot was so marked for the purpose of identifying the ballot.
(10) In order to vote for a write-in candidate, the voter must write in the candidate’s name in the space provided and fill in the oval opposite the candidate’s name in accordance with (1) of this subsection.
(11) A vote for a write-in candidate, other than a write-in vote for governor and lieutenant governor, shall be counted if the oval is filled in for that candidate and if the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided.
(12) If the write-in vote is for governor and lieutenant governor, the vote shall be counted if the oval is filled in and the names, as they appear on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor or the last names of the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, or the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate for governor or the last name of the candidate for governor is written in the space provided.
(b) The rules set out in this section are mandatory and there are no exceptions to them. A ballot may not be counted unless marked in compliance with these rules.