Summary
An Alaska judge ruled that Mary Peltola’s campaign could not require state election officials to provide a list of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected. The judge said the request could not reasonably be fulfilled or redacted while officials were counting ballots and meeting election deadlines.Key Facts
- Peltola’s campaign sued state election officials for a list of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected and the reasons for the rejections.
- The campaign said it sought the information to help ensure qualified voters’ ballots were counted.
- The state argued that the requested records contained confidential voter information and that producing them would burden election officials.
- Judge Thomas Matthews said the requested records could not reasonably be produced or redacted at that time.
- Alaska was still counting ballots in its ranked-choice Senate election, with Mary Peltola and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan the main contenders.
- Alaska accepts ballots from overseas voters through Nov. 18.
- The Division of Elections targeted Nov. 18 for ranked-choice tabulations if no candidate received more than 50% of first-choice votes.
- Observers at absentee ballot review boards receive a version of the report that includes home addresses, and they must sign agreements barring them from keeping or copying the information.
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