 Miller took his appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court, citing a provision in the Alaska election statute that says there shall be "no exceptions" to the rules for counting ballots, and arguing that therefore, all ballots with misspellings or other deviations should be thrown out.The court heard oral arguments on December 17.Miller also had a pending case in federal court raising U.S. constitutional claims that the and the Due Process Clauses were violated by State election authorities; the federal court could consider the claims once Miller's State court options are exhausted.