The Anchorage Assembly adopted updates to the city’s procedures for handling elections in a 9-2 vote today:
“This drew a lot of attention, as it should,” Assembly member John Weddleton said. “Every year, we tweak it a little bit here or there and make it a little bit better.”
“A lot of this was brought on by the contentious election that was held this year, and so we felt we needed to make some changes to clarify the rules so everyone knows what the requirements are,” Petersen said.putting 24-hour livestreamed monitoring of the voting center into city code, establishing training requirements for elections observers and clarifying the municipal clerk’s ability to limit in-person observers.
“There are people who just don’t trust this system,” Kennedy said. “There’s still a lot of pessimism out there.” Bronson, who was not physically present at the Tuesday night meeting, narrowly won the majority of votes counted through an elections process he has publicly cast doubt on, and he criticized the proposed adjustments at an earlier meeting on the measures.
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