An appeal by the Alaska Democratic Party to take a federal prisoner’s name off the November ballot for Alaska’s U.S. House race was denied Thursday by the state Supreme Court.
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The law states, “If a candidate nominated at the primary election dies, withdraws, resigns, becomes disqualified from holding office for which the candidate is nominated, or is certified as being incapacitated in the manner prescribed by this section after the primary election and 64 or more days before the general election, the vacancy shall be filled by the director by replacing the withdrawn candidate with the candidate who received the fifth most votes in the primary election.
“Now that I’ve the primary and I’m ready to win in November, suddenly we have these frivolous challenges come out of the womb.”“So can the vacancy actually be filled? Or can it not be filled? And then what do we make of the fact that it directs the director to fill the vacancy, but she can’t actually do that,” Borghesan asked.
“For instance, if a person speaks to me, I will respond to them. I imagine over the course of the day that would most naturally be read and understood to me, whenever a person speaks to me, I will respond to them — not I’m only going to respond to one person because I expect only one person will speak to me today,” Henderson said.
“The voters also had a chance to vote for Mr. Hafner in the primary election. I mean, it’s not like he was disqualified for the ballot entirely, and the voters — a few of them — voted for him to qualify for the general election under the plain terms of the statute,” Fox told the justices.
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