A group of 10 residents is contesting Anchorage’s April 4 election, claiming that more than 36,000 voters were disenfranchised because they didn’t receive either a notice of the election or a mailed ballot package.
requires a contest to assert one or more of three grounds: That there has been “malconduct, fraud or corruption on the part of an election official sufficient to change the result of the election;” or that an official that’s been elected is not qualified as required by law; or that there’s been “any corrupt practice as defined by law sufficient to change the result of the election.”, filed by Dan Smith and Brenda Hastie on May 4, is broadly challenging election results.
In their April 11 appeal, Graham, Henry and Smith quoted an internal city policy that didn’t exist until the day they filed their appeal to the city’s Election Commission. The city ombudsman is now In its signed report to the Assembly, the commission said, “There were no failures to comply with the provisions of law that were likely to change the outcome of any of the candidate, races or issues on the ballot.”Directly after the certification vote, seven Assembly members were, including two reelected members. The Assembly, including those newly-elected members, must now decide whether the election contest should be heard.
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