U.S. Postal Service problems caused ballots from six rural Alaska villages to be incompletely counted, officials said.
In addition, a disproportionately large number of ballots from rural Alaska were rejected in the June by-mail special primary to fill the U.S. House seat left vacant by the death of Congressman Don Young.
The problems caused by November’s missing ballots were exacerbated by the state’s implementation of the new ranked choice voting system. Alaska’s new ranked choice voting system uses a computerized sorting process to determine final winners in close races, which means each ballot must be scanned to get a final result.
“Moving forward, really working with the Division of Elections and other statewide partners that are in this space, we need to find the best path in order to make sure that all Alaskans have the opportunity to have their full voice expressed in the election,” she said.
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