O'CALLAGHAN v. State

OPINION

This appeal originated with events surrounding the 1990 state primary election. The facts were described by this court in Mike O’Callaghan’s first appeal, O’Callaghan v. State, 826 P.2d 1132 (Alaska), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 860, 113 S.Ct. 176, 121 L.Ed.2d 122 (1992). We summarize them briefly here.

In the 1990 state primary election, Jack Coghill won the Republican Party’s nomination for lieutenant governor. O’Callaghan, 826 P.2d at 1133. The Republican Party ticket was therefore Coghill and Arliss Stur-gulewski, the Republican Party’s candidate for governor. John Lindauer and Jerry…