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KOHLHAAS v. STATE

Supreme Court No. S-18210.

518 P.3d 1095 (2022)

Scott A. KOHLHAAS, The Alaskan Independence Party, Robert M. Bird, and Kenneth P. Jacobus, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, Office of Lieutenant Governor, Division of Elections, and Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer and Director Gail Fenumiai, in their official capacities, Appellees, and Alaskans for Better Elections, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 21, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Jacobus , Kenneth P. Jacobus, P.C., Anchorage, for Appellants.

Laura Fox , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Treg R. Taylor , Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellees.

Scott M. Kendall , Jahna M. Lindemuth , and Samuel G. Gottstein , Cashion Gilmore & Lindemuth, Anchorage, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Craig W. Richards , Law Offices of Craig Richards, Anchorage, and Daniel R. Suhr , Liberty Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois, for Amici Mead Treadwell and Dick Randolph.

James E. Torgerson , Stoel Rives LLP, Anchorage, T. Clark Weymouth , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., and Peter Bautz and Elizabeth Femia , Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Victor Fischer, Richard H. Pildes, and Gary Michael Parsons, Jr.

Susan Orlansky and Thomas P. Amodio , Reeves Amodio LLC, Anchorage, and Paul Haughey , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLC, San Francisco, California, for Amici RepresentUs and FairVote.

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

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

In 2020 Alaska voters approved, by a slim margin, a ballot initiative that made sweeping changes to Alaska's system of elections. The changes included replacing the system of political party primary elections with a nonpartisan primary election and adopting ranked-choice voting for...

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