pocketfullofshells
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/miller-sues-over-murkowski-spelling-on-alaska-ballots
so Miller is suing to make sure that any mispelling of her name does not count as a vote for her...
first pretty sure Alaska law states voter intent...but being no expert on Alaska law could be wrong, but thats what reports had said....This was the case when I worked with a write in Canidate in WI, spelling just had to be close to make intent clear...at my polling station I only had only one vote not counted that I had planned to contest later if election was close as I felt it was clear, but counted did not ..( they had basicly wrote our slogan "pen in Jen" only wrote jen in pen....under rules as we had been told, even just writing Jen would count...( we started running just over 2 weeks before election so you can guess how how how hard it was to get a correct spelling of a name that was not normal out for the city..
that said, leagal issue aside....
Is Miller a insert name here...for trying to win this way...but basically saying your spelling is more important then who you realy wanted to vote for...we praise democracy and voting in this nation, ...but not at the expense of Spelling?
so Miller is suing to make sure that any mispelling of her name does not count as a vote for her...
first pretty sure Alaska law states voter intent...but being no expert on Alaska law could be wrong, but thats what reports had said....This was the case when I worked with a write in Canidate in WI, spelling just had to be close to make intent clear...at my polling station I only had only one vote not counted that I had planned to contest later if election was close as I felt it was clear, but counted did not ..( they had basicly wrote our slogan "pen in Jen" only wrote jen in pen....under rules as we had been told, even just writing Jen would count...( we started running just over 2 weeks before election so you can guess how how how hard it was to get a correct spelling of a name that was not normal out for the city..
that said, leagal issue aside....
Is Miller a insert name here...for trying to win this way...but basically saying your spelling is more important then who you realy wanted to vote for...we praise democracy and voting in this nation, ...but not at the expense of Spelling?