Monitoring will focus on the Bethel, Dillingham and Kusilvak Census Areas, as well as the North Slope and Northwest Arctic Boroughs.
The U.S. Department of Justice will monitor Alaska’s compliance with federal voting rights law s in rural areas of the state forThe five areas of focus will be the Bethel Census Area, Dillingham Census Area, Kusilvak Census Area, North Slope Borough, and Northwest Arctic Borough – almost the entirety of the Northern and Western reaches of the state, with the exception of the Nome Census Area.
. Asked whether Alaska would cooperate with DOJ’s monitoring efforts, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office referred questions to the Alaska Division of Elections. Neither state election officials nor the DOJ responded to emails Monday. The state of Alaska has historically struggled to deliver equal voting opportunity to rural parts of the state – areas off the road system that tend to be higher-percentage or predominantly Alaska Native. Seventy-seven communities in Alaska don’t have their own polling place, or share a polling place with a different community, according to the nonpartisan “Get Out the Native Vote” effort affiliated with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council. In this year’s primary election, over a dozen communities experienced a late start to voting, including the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities of Napaskiak and Stony River. There is also only one early voting location in the entirety of rural Alaska: in Nome at the Region IV elections office. Some rural hub communities have the opportunity to vote early through absentee in-person ballots, which havethan early votes in urban communities. The rejection rate can in part be explained by the fact that for early voting, eligibility is verified before a ballot is cast. With absentee ballots, eligibility is verified after the ballot is cast.against the state, which alleges that Alaska violates the Voting Rights Act by not providing adequate language assistance to Alaska Native voters.delivered incorrect ballots to more than 90 voters who’d voted early through absentee in-person voting in Dillingham, King Salmon, and Aniak, according to the Anchorage Daily News. On Election Day, DOJ said that Civil Rights Division personnel will be available to receive questions and complaints from the public related to possible violations of federal voting rights laws. Reports may be made through the department’s websiteis our partner station in Bethel. KTOO collaborates with partners across the state to cover important news and to share stories with our audiences.
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