I just heard about some ballets being found. I'm not sure if they contain primary votes or not. It does sound like they
had have some problems.
Potentially uncounted ballots from municipal election found
By RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News
Published: July 13th, 2012 08:48 PM
Last Modified: July 13th, 2012 09:30 PM
As if there wasn't enough problems already with the April municipal election, city officials said Friday they discovered a cache of 141 "potentially" uncounted ballots.
In a joint prepared statement emailed to news outlets at 6:30 p.m. Friday, long after City Hall shut down for the weekend, Assembly Chair Ernie Hall and new Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones said the ballots were found in sealed bags on Wednesday.
In an interview Friday night, Hall said he didn't want to notify the media about the discovery Wednesday because there were still more sealed bags in the city's vault to inspect. That inspection was concluded Thursday.
"We wanted to make sure that we had everything done," Hall said. "I only wanted to do one release. I wanted to make sure there was nothing in any other bag, anyplace."
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The April 3 election has proven to be a disaster. Officials failed to provide enough ballots at more than half the precincts, and then failed to realize how serious the problem had become. The deputy clerk who handled Election Day duties was fired and her boss, City Clerk Barbara Gruenstein, resigned, but the fallout hasn't stopped yet. In an independent investigation announced July 2, a retired Superior Court judge, Dan Hensley, said blame for the mess belonged to the City Clerk's office and the Anchorage Assembly
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Read more here:
http://www.adn.com/2012/07/13/2541676/potentially-uncounted-ballots.html#storylink=cpy
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