The complaint filed in federal court Tuesday afternoon asks Fenumiai's office to "adhere" to state law in the counting of write-in ballots, limiting what the suit called "subjective" voter intent rules that were issued this week.Miller's campaign has blasted the Division of Elections' standards as "extraordinarily ambiguous."The suit requests a court hearing Wednesday over the rules and asks for an injunction.The guidelines say poll workers must consider the voter's intent when determining whether to count a ballot for a write-in candidateThe Miller suit says, according to state election law, that a write-in vote can't be accepted if the voter did not correctly write either the full name or last name of a candidate; the voter wrote a candidate's name incorrectly, or misspelled it; or the name written on the ballot is not the name used on the candidate's certificate of candidacy.
Alaska's write-in ballot count to begin Wednesday despite challenge
Published on Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Alaska election officials will begin counting write-in ballots Wednesday despite a federal court challenge by the campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, state director Gail Fenumiai said.