Alaska judge sides with elections office in decision keeping Tara Sweeney off U.S. House special election ballot

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A state court judge ruled Friday that Alaska elections officials do not need to put the fifth-place finisher in this month’s U.S. House special primary on the upcoming special election ballot in place of a candidate who withdrew.

the division to put the fifth-place candidate, Republican Tara Sweeney, on the special election ballot in his place.

Fenumiai said that Gross withdrew on Tuesday and his name would not be on the special election ballot. That would mean the special election ballot would include the top three special primary finishers and a space for voters to rank a write-in candidate, she said. While the division is “sympathetic to the public expectation” that under the new law four candidates would advance, “it lacks the discretion to relax an unambiguous statutory deadline to effectuate this goal,” attorneys for the Department of Law, representing the division, said in court filings.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of registered voters Sunny Guerin, Vera Lincoln and Elizabeth Asisaun Toovak.

 

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