Divining Votes: Which Intent, Whose Discretion

Alaska Standard
April 15, 2011
By Matt Johnson

Senate Bill 31 is being offered by its sponsors as a remedy for Alaska's “flawed” write-in statute. It seems the Legislature is understandably rather anxious to put the 2010 election in its rear view mirror. The bill took less than a month to clear two Senate committees, the Senate Floor, and be read across the House Floor before State Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Lynn put a hold on it, pending the Lt. Governor's 2010 Election Review report.