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STATE v. ARCTIC VILLAGE COUNCIL

Supreme Court No. S-17902.

495 P.3d 313 (2021)

STATE of Alaska, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Division of Elections, and Director Gail Fenumiai, in an official capacity, Petitioners, v. ARCTIC VILLAGE COUNCIL, League of Women Voters of Alaska, Elizabeth L. Jones, and Barbara Clark, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 17, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Fox , Lael Harrison , and Margaret Paton Walsh, Assistant Attorneys General, Anchorage, and Clyde "Ed" Sniffen, Jr. , Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for Petitioners.

Natalie Landreth , Matthew N. Newman , and Wesley James Furlong , Native American Rights Fund, Anchorage, for Respondent Arctic Village Council; Stephen Koteff , Joshua Decker , and Aadika Singh , ACLU of Alaska Foundation, Anchorage, and Dale E. Ho , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, for Respondents League of Women Voters of Alaska, Elizabeth Jones, and Barbara Clark; and Ezra D. Rosenberg , Pooja Chaudhuri , and Natasha Chabria, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Washington, D.C., for all Respondents.

Before: Bolger, Chief Justice, Winfree, Maassen, Carney and Borghesan, Justices.

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

About two months before the 2020 general election, a village government, a nonpartisan political organization, and two individual Alaska voters sought to enjoin the State from enforcing a statute that requires absentee ballots to be witnessed by an official or other adult. They argued...

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