Anchorage Assembly work session reviews timeline of April election complaint:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage Assembly members are seeking to get to the bottom of what’s behind a challenge to the April election results. They’re looking at the sequence of events that led to a former member of Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration getting ahold of an internal policy that was then used to challenge the results of the election.
According to documents, Graham filed a complaint on April 6 that election staff was using thumb drives to transfer election data from voting tabulation machines to municipal-owned computers. Graham said she was concerned the USB drives could “intentionally” or “unintentionally” alter election results.
Merchant then emailed and instructed system analyst Heather Holland to create a link to the informal policy on a non-public municipal website used internally by municipal employees. Dahl then emailed Graham a link to the ITD Policy, which she then used to support her initial complaint. “I think the ombudsman said that he is going to have a preliminary report ready by next week, and another two weeks that he’s going to have his final report done, at which point it will be shared with the administration and assembly. At that point we’ll review it — if we need to take action we will,” Bird said.
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