Alaska drops cases against American Samoans who checked ‘US citizen’ on voter form

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:08 GMT

Group no longer faces voter misconduct case over wrongly marked box after appeals court throws out felony chargesAlaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a US citizen.The state’s department of law announced the decision on Friday, after a three-judge court of appeals panel ruled a week earlier that state law requires proof that defendants who erroneously filled out voter registration forms had a “consciousness of wrongdoing” and intended to break the law. Continue reading...

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