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ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY v. ALASKA

No. 07-35186.

545 F.3d 1173 (2008)

ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY; Linda Winkelman; Alaska Libertarian Party, Inc.; Scott Kohlhaas, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. State of ALASKA, Division of Elections; Loren Leman Lieutenant Governor, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 6, 2008.

As Amended October 22, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Jacobus, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael A. Barnhill (argued), Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Talis J. Colberg, Attorney General, Juneau, AK, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: D.W. NELSON, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

Alaska requires political parties to nominate candidates for the state's general election ballot in a state-run primary, in which any registered member of a political party may seek the party's nomination. Nominees are then chosen by the vote of party-affiliated voters and any other voters whom the parties choose to let participate. The Alaskan Independence Party ("AIP") and the Alaska Libertarian Party ("ALP") contend that these laws burden...

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