Anchorage election officials explain the steps that keep municipal ballots secure during mail-in election
Anchorage election workers walk through the steps that keep voting secureANCHORAGE, Alaska - City election officials said they expect to receive about 30,000 voted ballots by the end of Wednesday for Anchorage’s April 2 municipal election.
“Essentially what’s happening is, this machine on first pass is marking the voter off on the voter registry as voted and it’s also taking a picture of the signature that is on the ballot return envelope,” he said. The city’s mail-in voting system, which began in 2018, has operated this way for some time according to Municipal Clerk Jamie Heinz. But Heinz said there have been more recent changes in response to concerns about security.
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