Alaska’s pre-primary election turnout is down from extraordinary 2022 and 2020 primaries

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Alaska’s pre-primary election turnout is down from extraordinary 2022 and 2020 primaries
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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic emergency boosted absentee turnout to record highs, and in 2022, there was a special U.S. House election.

Poll workers set up an early voting statiion in the atrium of the State Office Building in Juneau, Alaska on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, the first day of early voting for the 2024 Alaska primary election.

Through Thursday, the Alaska Division of Elections had received 12,578 absentee ballot requests through mail, fax or email, according to Two years ago, Alaskans requested more than 27,000 absentee ballots by mail, fax or email for the primary, and in 2020, the figure was more than 62,000 for the primary. have all sent unsolicited absentee ballot request forms to voters, according to the Division of Elections.

According to the division, 2,100 Alaskans cast ballots at early voting sites between Aug. 5 and Aug. 7 this year. by delays that prevented ballots from arriving in time for the Aug. 5 start of early voting.James Boxrud, a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service, said on Friday that the agency “is committed to the secure, timely delivery of the nation’s Election Mail.”

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