...statement: "Our initiative intends to make sure that no one appoints Alaska's U.S. senators, and the ballot summary language misstates this purpose, misstates the amount of time, and illegally editorializes." The summary says, in part...

...is a result of a court order last September directing the division to reprint 517,000 ballots because of biased summary language written by Lt. Gov. Loren Leman concerning an initiative requiring elections to fill U.S. Senate vacancies...

...ballot. Arguments Thursday, in which both sides were given a little more than a half hour, focused on how defective summary language would have to be in order to keep an initiative from voters. "How do we determine whether these people would have...