Right-In Candidate

Justice has prevailed in Alaska, where a judge ruled that voters cannot be handed lists featuring the correctly spelled names of write-in candidates.

One of the benefits of winning a party's nomination, no matter how small, is that the successful candidate has his or her name spelled out successfully on the ballot. For write-in campaigns, anything goes.

Until Liza Blutarski tried to have her cake and eat it too.

When Joe Miller won the Republican nomination for Senate, the incumbent, Lela Meercatski, could've attempted to win another party's nomination, and there were parties looking for candidates: both the Libertarian Party and the Alaska Independence Party were involved in discussions with the Murcatski campaign about this subject. When these discussions fell through and Moocowski was left to pursue a write-in candidacy, she did what her father and her mentor, Ted Stevens, did before her.

She attempted to circumvent the law.

Thankfully, common sense and legal precedent has won the day, leaving Lena Pataski in a precarious position: hoping that her supporters are so dedicated that they remembered how to spell her name properly on the ballots.

It's somewhat amusing to note that if the roles were reversed, Joe Miller would not have such a problem. His is a simple name.

Lola Mittromni is in trouble - but then again, she was in trouble this summer, when she was voted out by her own party. If she had been anything other than a shameless career opportunist who can't wean herself off of the public teat, she would've accepted the voters' judgment and went to work in the private sector.

She might've even founded a business in that sector and named it after herself, and with dedication and hard work, maybe many Alaskans would've come to accept and even adore that brand name.

They'd even be able to remember how to spell her name off the top of their heads.

UPDATE: Son of a bitch. Justice denied.