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The office that a person is seeking the amount of money that's involved in a race, the number of years or prestige that an incumbent candidate or another candidate may hold, and a way— the way that a person chooses to present their campaign. For example, using blue and gold as their colors, which so many candidates do, having a website which displays their picture in a certain location, those kinds of factors. The factors that seem statutorily that should matter to the Division of Elections our basic eligibility of citizenship, residency, and age, and the ballot's readability with no to minimal intervention as possible. I think that the Division of Elections, having Dan J. Sullivan back on the ballot in this particular situation, has responded appropriately to the Supreme Court decision, but I'm still concerned that the amount of information that voters would like to see and that candidates would like to have on their ballot creates a precedence that is not necessarily in the greatest interest of transparency. Um, and I'm just worried about precedent setting for the potential for DOE to, again, as I said at the previous hearing, be making subjective instead of objective decisions about Alaska's elections and candidates.

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