Three voters are asking an Anchorage judge to invalidate a ballot measure seeking to repeal Alaska’s voting system.
Alaskans For Honest Elections held a ballot initiative petition signing, to reject ranked choice voting in Alaska elections, at a South Anchorage church on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023.
The complaint was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by Anchorage attorney Scott Kendall, who was a leading advocate for Alaska’s current voting system and has since sought to defend it. The complaint asserts that if the court finds either allegation to be independently true, the petition should be disqualified.
According to the complaint, the Division of Elections received “numerous complaints” about petition booklets being left unattended. The division “repeatedly warned” the group leaders about the practice. Subtracting the signatures collected in booklets that were left unattended — or in books that were not properly notarized before their submission — the petition would not meet the minimum signature requirements to put the question on the ballot, according to the complaint.
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