re: #267 sattv4u2

A),, I’m not writing her name in on an OFFICIAL ballot here, guided by Alaska state law

No, you really don’t understand. Maybe you didn’t actually read what you quoted to me. When you’re writing it on an official ballot, you can just use her last name, not her name as it appears. Here’s what you quoted:

(11) A vote for a write-in candidate, other than a write-in vote for governor and lieutenant governor, shall be counted if the oval is filled in for that candidate and if the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided.

So you don’t have tow rite the name as it appears. You can also write the last name of the candidate.

B)I asked you to show me how her name appears on the ballot, you have not. I’m not sure why!

Heh. Because you appear to not understand that you can just write the person’s last name on the ballot. That’s why.

Is it on there as L. Murkowski? Lisa Murkowski?? Lisa (middle initial((s)) Murkowski??? Mrs Lisa Murkowski?? Ms Lisa Murkowski?? Mrs Lisa (middle initial) Murkowski??

Again: All irrelevant if someone writes Murkowski.

The questions is whether or not someone writing something very similar to Murkowski should be accepted, or any other variants thereof.

Common sense says that they should, and the law says nothing about the correctness of spelling in reference to the last name.

Why are you so het up about this?