Conservative activists responding to corruption inherent in the Alaskan political and judicial establishment. Ah, that hits the spot.
In a movement one pro-Sarah Palin website is calling “Operation Alaska Chaos,” at least 100 people filed paperwork Thursday to register as write-in candidates in the U.S. Senate election, according to the Division of Elections.
A stream of would-be senators filtered through the elections office in Midtown Anchorage late in the day, many saying the effort is meant to protest an order by the Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday allowing a list of write-in candidates to be shown to voters who ask for assistance.
You’ll recall that the court has decided to aide Murkowski’s write-in bid, using an unprecedented (at least in Alaska) system of providing the write-in candidate list to voters. They’ve basically created a second ballot just for daddy’s little princess. How sweet.
On a related note, just how pissed are Americans over corrupted politics this year? This pissed:
“I’m signing up to become a senator,” a man in a hoodie said into his cell phone at the Midtown office. An Anchorage woman who said the Supreme Court order is illegal wheeled in her oxygen tank, asking about signing up for both state and federal office.
The woman got her and her oxygen tank in the car, drove down to the elections bureau, and waited in line behind other people who were doing the same exact thing. Awesome.
The Division of Elections website already lists the names of 40 individuals who have registered as write-in candidates, and the Anchorage office says it’s still processing paperwork on others.
Well done, my Alaskan brethren. Well done.


by Stephan Tawney on October 29, 2010