Alaska Supreme Court rejects appeal to reprint 800K ballots
(WorldNews Politics)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska elections officials succeeded in two court challenges Friday, surviving efforts from a nonpartisan candidate seeking to force the state to reprint 800,000 ballots after the design of the document was changed. The Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which said forcing the reprinting of the ballots would cause harm to the state. The high court heard the case on an expedited basis after Superior Court Judge Jennifer Henderson issued her ruling early Friday afternoon. U.S. House candidate Alyse Galvin sued after the newly designed general election ballot dropped her nonpartisan affiliation after her name and instead listed her only as the “Democratic...