Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher defended Alaska's 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. The director of the Alaska Division of Election answered some pointed questions at a legislative hearing last week.
“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. Each ballot is checked for appropriate voter identification information. Ballots are coded by district, and then given another review by another group of election workers, including an observer, she said. “The observer has the opportunity to challenge that ballot. If they challenge a ballot, a challenge is sent to me, and then I review the information based on what the challenge is, and I’ll often confer with Law,” she said.
Beecher said training and retaining poll workers is essential for running elections smoothly. “So one of the challenges that we run into, and frankly, it’s not just in our rural areas, the turnover of poll workers is a reality,” Beecher said. The division conducts in-person poll worker trainings, and provides support with video tutorials and by phone.
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