Alaska elections officials report voting 'irregularities' in East Anchorage Republican primary
he Alaska Division of Elections said Monday it is investigating absentee ballot irregularities in a primary race for an east Anchorage state House district — including absentee ballot applications sent in under the names of people who are dead, and votes cast in the name of at least two people who said they had never actually voted.
In the Republican primary in that district, Aaron Weaver is leading incumbent Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux by just three votes.
In a statement Monday, Alaska elections officials said suspicions arose when a higher-than-normal number of ballots for the Aug. 21 state primary came back as "undeliverable." There's a certain number of undeliverable absentee ballots in every election, and the state tries to contact those voters and get them new ballots, the statement said.
But in this primary, more than half of the voters the state was unable to reach — 40 out of 70 — were from House District 15, the statement said.
https://www.adn.com/politics/2018/08/27/alaska-elections-officials-report-voting-irregularities-in-east-anchorage-house-district-primary/
