What are state election officials most concerned about lately? Homegrown misinformation, especially from social media.
for a close ballot measure question, the one that led to open primaries and ranked choice voting. Across hundreds of individual voting precincts, the vast majority were spot on. Some were off by a few votes in one direction or the other. After hand counting more than 340,000 ballots, there was a net change of 171 votes. The overall ratio of yes and no votes only changed by about one one-hundredth of a percent.
The other way the machines are secured is through “air gapping.” That’s network security jargon that just means the machines involved in counting votes are not on any networks, they don’t talk to each other electronically, they don’t have Bluetooth or wifi.Election Security Officer Stephen Mattson said the scanners at precincts do briefly get connected to an external cellular modem to transmit results, then unplugged.
An election worker shows how a tamper-evident seal — the red tab — works with a locking zipper on bags used to transport election materials securely in this still from an Alaska Division of Elections training video. It’s one of many security measures the division employs. . How will that affect our elections?
That was a Mat-Su Borough level decision that specifically affects Mat-Su Borough elections, beginning next year. It doesn’t affect the state’s election procedures, or how state election workers that happen to be in the Mat-Su count votes in statewide elections, like the one Nov. 8.It depends. For people who’ve jumped through the hoops to specifically request an absentee ballot, which nearly 54,000 people have this year – yes.
Early voting in person is a little different. Those ballots are treated more like regular Election Day ballots. They go right into the state’s custody.However, there is no way to check if your specific ballot has been counted, because that could reveal how you voted. Different types of ballots get pooled together before they’re counted. It’s a tradeoff with the right to a secret ballot.
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