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showed one Southeast Alaska precinct seemed to overwhelmingly choose a peculiar candidate for the U.S. House — a man currently imprisoned in New York.
Pelican resident Patricia Phillips tuned in to the radio Thursday morning to catch up on the news, she said something caught her ear. “I know for sure there were two votes for Mary Peltola. I came into the city office on Election Day and I voted,” she said.Phillips said her husband also 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.
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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