Joe Miller, Appellant v. Mead Treadwell

Summary

The court affirmed the superior court's rulings upholding the Division of Elections' treatment of write-in ballots, manual counting procedures, and vote-counting methodology. It held that minor misspellings or variations in a write-in candidate's name do not invalidate a ballot when voter intent can be ascertained, but a write-in ballot with no mark in the required oval is invalid. The court also rejected challenges based on alleged duplicate handwriting and unmarked voter-identification registers, held that the Division's counting methodology did not require rulemaking, and returned jurisdiction for consideration of a proposed felon-voting claim. No separate opinions were presented.