The Anchorage Daily News offers this report, which begins: “A Superior Court judge has thrown out a state law requiring separate primary ballots for each of Alaska’s political parties. Judge Mark Rindner said the 2001 law that bars parties from listing their candidates together on a joint ballot unnecessarily restricts the right of association for parties and voters. Political parties that want to close their primaries are free to do so, but parties that don’t want to close their primaries should not be forced to, he wrote Thursday in a summary judgment against the state.”