Alaska Democratic Party is threatening to sue the Division of Elections over a correction flyer that the division intends to send to House District 15 voters.
The correction is to fix the problem found on Page 19 of the printed version of the voter election pamphlet, published before every state election.
On Page 19, the pamphlet lists Republican Mia Costello as a Democrat, when she is in fact, a lifelong Republican. In another location in the pamphlet, her party is correctly listed.
In a letter to Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher, the Democrats’ executive director says that any communication to the district must also include the names and parties of the other candidates, both of whom are Democrats.
“From news reports, we have learned about a proposal to correct one error on page 19 that identifies Mia Costello as a Democrat, even though she is correctly identified as a Republican on her candidate profile on page 69. Any partiality in communications to one candidate by the Division of Elections would be an infringement on each of the candidate’s right to fair treatment, leading to claims of discrimination and bias a potentially causing additional voter confusion. Such paid communication from the State of Alaska would amount to the State inappropriately advertising directly in favor of one candidate in a contested State House race,” wrote Lindsey Kavanaugh of the Democratic Party.
Kavanaugh said the other candidates need to be listed on any correction sent to the district — or else.
“Any postcards or other official communications that fail to provide equal and unbiased coverage to these candidates will undermine the integrity of our electoral process and potentially expose the State to legal action,” Kavanaugh threatened.
Huh? In order to justly make a correction to a pretty significant boo-boo, one also has to list all the errors one DIDN’T make?
Division of Elections should remove the name “Harris” from RCV materials and replace with Minnie Mouse! Such incompetence and no one is held responsible!
I wrote to the Commissioner, politely pointed out the appearance of impropriety and impartiality and specifically asked for a reply to my concerns but I’ve since quit holding my breath. “Public servants”. Yeah right.
So sue them for being incompetent.
Why not just demand removal of all Republicans from the ballot? It’s what they want.
Sounds like Kavanaugh is back on the bottle.
Just Do it!
Well dang, Dems seem to be all litigation-giddy about fairness in election info when DoE wants to correct a righteous error but I haven’t seem them threatening litigation over the “Harris” name boo boo?!? Certainly would seem that they aren’t really that concerned about fairness in elections after all…
One of these days Republicans are going to have e to stop running scared from lawsuits by dems.
I wonder where all our election material is printed.
Most OEPs in recent memory said Portland, Oregon.
Lawfare. Tell me the (D)ems have no game without telling me the (D)ems have no game.
The commies are correctly listed as registered D.
What’s the problem?
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The democrats are correct on this. The correct fix is to reprint the list of candidates correctly. To send out a mailer only listing one candidate a couple of weeks before the election is as egregious as listing Harris in the presidential block. I would expect Republicans to act the same way if the situation were reversed. Beecher is a Dunleavy, Dahlstrom appointment. It is amazing that she is unable to proof read what division of elections puts out.
Agreed.
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