Thu Mar 31, 2022 – 6:41 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Election officials in Alaska will not verify the signatures on mail-in ballots in the state’s upcoming House primary election, reinforcing ongoing concerns about election integrity.
On June 11, Alaska will hold a special statewide primary election for the state’s at-large congressional district to fill the vacancy left by the passing of Republican Rep. Don Young earlier this month. The top four candidates will go on to a general election on August 16, though with the April 1 filing deadline imminent, so far only two candidates are running: Republican Nicholas Begich and Democrat Christopher Constant.
The Alaska Watchman reported that on March 25, Alaska’s Division of Elections sent out an email confirming that “[t]here is no statutory authority to verify signatures, but voters will have to provide witness signatures.” On April 27, the division intends to mail a ballot to the address on file for all of the more than 586,000 qualified registered voters in the state.
On March 23, Alaska Republican Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer claimed during a press conference that an in-person election was not feasible, supposedly because the nation’s ongoing supply chain issues had
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