Republican Rep. Lance Pruitt lost in his court challenge of the flawed election in District 27.
Pruitt had claimed that the moving of a polling location and the lack of voter notification by the Division of Elections led to his loss. He was asking the court for a do-over or other remedy.
The Alaska Supreme Court said in a brief statement that Pruitt had not “met the burden” to overturn the election of Liz Snyder, the Democrat who had challenged Pruitt for the second time. But the actual reason the Supreme Court denied the challenge won’t be provided to the public by the justices for as long as two years.
Pruitt’s attorneys said that by not notifying voters of the polling location change, the Division of Elections had disenfranchised them. The State attorneys arguing for the Division said that the COVID-19 pandemic had made elections particularly tricky this past year, and they were doing their best.
