Alaska Regulations § 6 AAC 25.071 Counting of write-in votes

In a general election, if one or more candidates have filed as write-in candidates for a race, the election board shall initially count the total number of active ballots on which a write-in candidate is the highest-ranked candidate. If this number is less than the number of votes received by the leading candidate in the first round of tabulation and the difference is equal to or greater than 0.5 percent of the total number of votes for the leading candidate and the write-in candidates in the first round of tabulation, all write-in candidates are defeated. Otherwise, the division shall conduct the tabulation under AS 15.15.350 with each valid write-in candidate as an individual candidate.