The Division of Elections director said the results initially reported for Elfin Cove and Pelican were not correct. The count was corrected Thursday to reflect the actual vote tally.
Unofficial results from the Division of Elections earlier this week showed one Southeast Alaska precinct seemed to overwhelmingly choose a peculiar candidate for the U.S. House — a man currently imprisoned in New York.
When Pelican resident Patricia Phillips tuned in to the radio Thursday morning to catch up on the news, she said something caught her ear. Phillips said she and her husband voted for Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola. Phillips has lived in Pelican for 50 years and went for Peltola in the last two elections. And she wasn’t sure why early reports showed that Democratic candidate Eric Hafner had more than half of the vote in her precinct.“I saw the results and I was wondering that maybe there was some sort of a clerical error that they put him down for that person instead of for Mary,” she said.
Hafner is one of three candidates running to unseat Peltola. He also happens to be serving a decades-long sentence in a prison in New York for threatening public officials. When KRBD’s Jack Darrell“I think I have a very good reason right now that I simply can’t come to Alaska,” he said.
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