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In a primary for Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Meeting banned voting machines for all future elections. The brand new legislation will take impact subsequent 12 months.
Anchorage Daily News reported:
In what is seemingly a primary for Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Meeting handed an ordinance this week that can prohibit the usage of voting tabulation machines for borough elections, beginning subsequent 12 months.
The brand new Mat-Su ordinance, accepted Tuesday evening, caps off a months-long effort from a gaggle of residents decided to ban the usage of voting machines spurred on by false claims of election fraud. Final month, the Meeting unanimously voted to make use of a hand-count to confirm the outcomes of the Nov. 8 borough election, however voting machines will nonetheless be used.
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Borough officers decided that it could be a “nice threat” to cease utilizing machines and mandate hand-counting for this 12 months’s borough election as a result of there could be insufficient time “to correctly put together for a change of this magnitude,” in keeping with a memo filed with the laws. As an alternative, these adjustments are set to be in place for subsequent November’s municipal election.
The brand new ordinance would require hand counting of ballots on election evening at every of the borough’s 41 precincts, with election staff calling leads to, as a substitute of counting going down on the borough workplace in Palmer. Some meeting members raised considerations that transporting ballots earlier than they’re counted might enhance the danger of vote tampering and fraud.
