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Uncounted ballots: A new can of worms (Anchorage election 2012)

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 – 9:52 AM | Comments Off on Uncounted ballots: A new can of worms (Anchorage election 2012)
Gwen Mathew at Anchorage Assembly work session on the botched Anchorage election, 13 Apr 2012.

At 6:30 PM on Friday, July 13, Assembly Chair Ernie Hall and Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones issued a press release about 141 “potentially uncounted ballots” from the April 3 Anchorage municipal election which had been discovered in sealed election bags on the previous Wednesday. As a result, the Anchorage Election Commission will yet again convene and the Anchorage Assembly will for a third time certify the botched election. Linda Kellen Biegel responds.

Anchorage Election Commission ignores broken security seals, recommends no independent investigation on broken election

Thursday, 26 April 2012 – 10:42 AM | Comments Off on Anchorage Election Commission ignores broken security seals, recommends no independent investigation on broken election
Anchorage Election Commission ignores broken security seals, recommends no independent investigation on broken election

Following its hastily-called two-day “special meeting,” the Municipal Election Commission on Wednesday issued its report recommending that the Anchorage Assembly certify the bollixed April 3 municipal election and recommending against an independent investigation of the election’s numerous irregularities — including broken security seals.

Anchorage Election Commission special meeting of April 21: Holding Duke accountable on “ignore broken security seals” instruction

Sunday, 22 April 2012 – 8:06 AM | Comments Off on Anchorage Election Commission special meeting of April 21: Holding Duke accountable on “ignore broken security seals” instruction
Anchorage Election Commission special meeting of April 21: Holding Duke accountable on “ignore broken security seals” instruction

Giving only two days’ notice, Assembly chair Ernie Hall announced on Thursday, April 19, that the Anchorage Election Commission would hold two special meetings to get further information about April 3 election irregularities. Here’s my report on Saturday’s meeting, and on the first mainstream media report on Deputy Municipal Clerk Jacqueline Duke’s instruction to election workers to ignore broken security seals on voting machines.