Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher defended Alaska election as secure, trustworthy and fair, despite some glitches.
Voters at Anchorage City Hall wait in line to cast their ballots on Nov. 4, 2024, the day before Election Day. City Hall, in downtown Anchorage, was one of the designated early voting sites in the state's largest city.
“A lot of the public has reached out to me and expressed a lot of frustration and concern around a lot of the activities of this election,” she said. “So this is an opportunity for us to have a conversation with the director of elections and the public so that we can gain an understanding about what happened and how the actions that we can take in the future.”
Beecher said the division investigated and found no evidence of non-U.S. citizens being registered through the PFD system. “This is not happening where somebody is marking that they are not a citizen and are receiving a voter registration card,” she said. “We had about 15 people on phones to take the calls that evening, and the phone starts ringing immediately, and all of the different precincts are calling in,” she said. Division workers also helped poll workers properly read rank choice ballots, she said. “And so there’s a lot of discussion that can happen on that phone call. It’s not necessarily just as simple as going through the list.”
This year, in the western Alaska community of Wales, the designated poll worker was not available and so the division of elections located a school teacherto administer the polls. “It was not ideal,” she said, but they had trained back up poll workers ready to deploy this year.
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