FISCHER v. STOUT

No. S-1953.

741 P.2d 217 (1987)

Victor FISCHER, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, v. Sandra STOUT, Director of the Alaska Division of Elections, and Stephen A. McAlpine, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, Respondents, Rick Uehling, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Clocksin, Wagstaff, Pope, Rogers & Clocksin, Anchorage, Joseph H. McKinnon, Anchorage, for petitioner/cross-respondent Fischer.

Susan D. Cox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Ronald W. Lorensen, Acting Atty. Gen., Juneau, for respondents Stout and McAlpine.

James T. Robinson, David A. Devine, Robinson, Devine & Holliday, Anchorage, for respondent/cross-petitioner Uehling.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This is an election recount appeal filed pursuant to AS 15.20.510.1 The principle issue is whether certain votes or classes of votes were properly counted or rejected in the November 1986 election for the state senate in Senate District H.

The election results were certified on November 24, 1986. Republican candidate Rick Uehling was declared the winner with 6,730 votes. The incumbent, Victor Fischer...

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