ASUO Sen. Ben Rudin sent an email to Constitutional Court Chief Justice Nick Schultz@@http://asuo.uoregon.edu/concourt.php@@ and associate justices Monday afternoon to appeal a ruling by the Elections Board regarding a grievance Rudin filed last week against the Katie and Alex campaign.
In the electronic grievance filed on April 8, Rudin said that the Katie and Alex campaign violated elections rules for fraudulently using the word “DuckWeb” on the campaign URL, http://duckweb.votekatieandalex.org/. The website has a DuckWeb login page with a yellow Katie and Alex banner on the side, encouraging voters to vote for Katie and Alex. Rudin said the campaign used DuckWeb for partisan purposes and to confuse voters.
The Elections Board decided Monday that the URL does not attempt to impersonate the DuckWeb URL.
“Voters need only look past the first term in the URL to determine the identity of the website,” the Elections Board wrote in its decision. “The URL in question does not make claims to be DuckWeb, and only provides an outlet by which voters can access it.”
Rudin wrote in the email to Con Court a request for the ruling to be overturned as soon as possible.
Because Katie and Alex have been removed from the ballot, the Elections Board reminded those in charge of the website to remove it after the general election.