Bwa-ha-ha. In Alaska Senate Write-In candidates flood Division of Elections

[Blue_In_AK]

You may know that Alaska's Division of Elections, for the first time ever, has been showing a list of write-in candidates to any voter who asks for it. Some poll workers have pointed to the write-in line and advised the voter that they could write in Lisa Murkowski right there. This is clearly electioneering and not allowed by our statutes and regulations.

In a very rare show of bipartisanship, the Alaska Democratic Party and the Alaska Republican Party filed a joint suit to stop the practice. A Superior Court judge entered an injunction, but the Supreme Court put a stay on the injunction until it could hear arguments tomorrow afternoon from the state and from Lisa Murkowski which almost seems like collusion to me.

Meanwhile, the gremlins in the process have struck again. This is just too funny.

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Dozens of people flooded the Midtown Division of Elections office this afternoon to register as write-in candidates for Tuesday's U.S. Senate election. Many said the effort is meant to protest an order by the Alaska Supreme Court yesterday allowing a list of write-in candidates to be shown to voters who ask for assistance.

The Anchorage office received 56 Senate write-in applications -- in person or by fax -- in just 45 minutes, said election clerk Raymond McAndrews shortly before 5 p.m.


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UPDATE: The total number of last-minute write-in candidates was unclear Thursday night. “We’ve been busy processing papers. I don’t have exact numbers,” Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said an e-mail. “It’s safe to say it is over 100.”

The division is updating the official list here.

Meantime, Conservatives4Palin.com, has dubbed the effort "Operation Alaska Chaos."

KFQD 750 AM radio host Dan Fagan, a backer of Republican nominee Joe Miller, has been urging voters to sign up in an act of "civil disobedience" -- defying what he calls an illegal effort by the state.

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"I'm signing up to become a senator," a man in a hoodie said into his cell phone. An Anchorage woman who said she was upset with the court ruling wheeled in her oxygen tank, asking if she could sign up to run for both federal and state office.



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Civil disobedience Alaaka style. :) I actually heard Shannyn Moore urging this today, too, so it's unfair for the Tea Partiers to take full credit. This seems like a true bipartisan effort. :rofl: It isn't right that Lisa gets a consideration that no other write-in candidate in Alaska's history has gotten.

[uppityperson]

1. That is very funny, good for them.

Another question for you. WHY would someone even need a list (even with 1 name on it) to figure out who to write in? If I were ever going to write in a name, I'd know the name when I went to vote.

This is good. Give them a list of names to chose from. Maybe Tom M might win.

[Chulanowa]

2. The two great Alaskan traditions

Political corruption, and throwing a spanner into the political machine.

Also cracking wind whether or not anyone is nearby.

Three. THREE great Alaskan traditions