Posted by Linda Kellen Biegel on July 24, 2012 · 27 Comments
In last week’s installment of the Municipality of Anchorage’s continuing 2012 Election debacle, new Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones made a disturbing find while attempting to (quite literally) clean up the old Municipal Clerk’s mess…141 unaccounted-for ballots. This has led the trusty Election Commission to meet this coming Thursday and review the ballots they missed the first two times around. While all of that has been going on, members of our Recount Observation Team have continued to research and slowly pursue the auditing process the Municipality has refused to provide. …and it’s been free of charge… The latest bombshell was discovered…
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Category Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Baffle it, Election 2012, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, LGBT, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign, Skulduggery, Strategery, Teabaggery · Tags Anchorage Municipal Clerk, Anchorage Municipal Election 2012, Barbara Gruenstein, Hand Recount, Jacqueline Duke, Jeanne Friedman, Linda Kellen-Biegel, Recount Observation Team
Posted by Linda Kellen Biegel on July 17, 2012 · 17 Comments
I’ll admit it…I’m tired of the Anchorage Municipal Election of 2012. It’s a kind of migraine-inducing, bone-aching, paralysis-producing exhaustion that I’ve rarely experienced. I know that’s how I felt after our team of 10 qualified voters and fabulous volunteer observers worked their butts off on the hand recount. The team “observed” and went above and beyond to report the issues and the craziness that happened during this hand recount. However, they did not stop there. The Team also poured (and continues to pour) time and energy into further investigation of the election issues in general, going way-beyond their “job description”…
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Category Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Baffle it, Bang it, Election 2012, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, LGBT, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, Number crunchery, Numbskullery, One Anchorage Campaign · Tags Anchorage Municipal Election 2012, Assembly Chair Ernie Hall, ballot vault, election audit, Election Commission, Gwen Matthew, Linda Kellen-Biegel, Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones, Wendy Isbell
Posted by Linda Kellen Biegel on June 19, 2012 · 12 Comments
(Tonight at the Anchorage Assembly Meeting, the Members will hear and vote upon a Resolution (9.B.7), submitted by Assemblywoman Gray-Jackson and co-sponsored by Harriet Drummond and Patrick Flynn, that is intended to refund the $1,500.00 the Recount Application Group submitted to the Municipality. The money was required by Title 28 in order to request and generate the hand count of 15 precincts. The Resolution was a result of the report and meeting described in the post below. It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, votes against it.) The Election Board Counts Precinct 840, Service High On Friday, June…
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Category Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Election 2012, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Law & Order, LGBT, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign · Tags Anchorage Election Commission, Election Board, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage Election 2012
Posted by Linda Kellen Biegel on June 13, 2012 · 12 Comments
The April 3rd Anchorage Municipal Election Recount Group will be meeting with the Anchorage Assembly in a Worksession this Friday to share our findings and recommendations with them. Per the website: ***************************************** Worksession – Election Recount Issues From 06/15/12 1:00 PM To 06/15/12 2:00 PM City Hall 632 W 6th Ave Anchorage Alaska Conference Room 830 ***************************************** This is a public meeting, as are all Assembly Meetings and Worksessions. WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF ELECTIONS IN ANCHORAGE TO SHOW UP IF YOU CAN! Our Recount Group now includes the 10 original signers plus some…
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Category Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Election 2012, Elections, Headlines, LGBT, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign · Tags Alaskans for Election Integrity, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Municipal Election 2012, Proposition 5, Recount Application
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 10, 2012 · 28 Comments
There have been two positive developments recently regarding the audit and hand count of the recent fouled up municipal election. First, Ernie Hall apologized from his seat as Chair of the Assembly to Wendy Isbell for how she was treated in a recent Assembly meeting. Second, Jacqueline Duke, the unqualified Deputy Clerk, whose immediate past employer was Chili’s, and who somehow landed an $82,000 a year job fouling up elections, misinforming poll workers, and being utterly unpleasant to anyone who asked legitimate questions, was fired. Also by Chair Ernie Hall. But not everything is rosy. The following statement to the…
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Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Bang it, Election 2012, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Municipal Election, Barbara Gruenstein, Diebold, Ernie Hall, Jacqueline Duke, Linda Kellen-Biegel, Mel Green
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 4, 2012 · 29 Comments
Tensions ran high at last night’s Assembly meeting, held to certify the badly botched Municipal election of April 3, 2012. The most intense moment came when Gwen Mathew, the Anchorage Election Commissioner, testified to the Assembly about the issue of broken security seals on the Diebold AccuVote machines on the day of the election. Mathew stated that she had received no report “at all, anywhere, of a seal being broken.” Wendy Isbell, a poll worker who had reported a broken seal multiple times in testimony, in writing, and by interview, to the Assembly, her precinct chair, and the Election Commission…
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Category ACLU, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Ethics, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign, Skulduggery, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Anchorage election, Anchorage Election Commission, Anchorage Municipal Election 2012, Debbie Ossiander, Diebold, Diebold Accuvote, Ernie Hall, Gwen Mathew, Jacqueline Duke, Paul Honeman, Wendy Isbell
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 3, 2012 · 15 Comments
OK, everyone! Let’s hear it for the magnificent 10! These Anchorage voters decided to join forces, speak up and say no to this nightmare we call an election that the Election Commission seems to think is just fine. No investigation, they say. No malfeasance they say. No reckless disregard, they say. No reprimands or censures, they say. Move along apathetic public, move along. Yesterday, 10 Anchorage voters filed a recount application with the Municipal Clerk’s Office per Title 28 of the Municipal Code. The provision allows for ten qualified voters to file a recount application with the municipal clerk within…
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Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Joe Miller, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Municipal Election, Barbara Gazaway, Guadalupe Marroquin, Hal Gazaway, Jacqueline Duke, Joe W Miller, Kelly Walters, Linda Kellen-Biegel, Melissa S Green, Wendy Isbell
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 2, 2012 · 8 Comments
Well respected former Anchorage Municipal Election Coordinator, Guadalupe Marroquin, recently wrote an open letter to members of the Anchorage Assembly regarding the recent badly botched Municipal election in Anchorage. Her excellent letter (edited for length) also ran in the Anchorage Daily News as a compass piece. Below is the full unedited text of her original letter. She has added her voice to that of former Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller in expressing the seriousness with which we should regard all issues of election integrity. And Ms. Marroquin has stated that in her expert opinion, this election needs a full…
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Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Ethics, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Election Commission, Anchorage Municipal Election, Barbara Gruenstein, Diebold, Guadalupe Marroquin, Jacqueline Duke
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 1, 2012 · 38 Comments
Former Alaskan Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller, has issued a statement to The Mudflats regarding the integrity of all elections, including the Alaska Senate race in 2010, and the recently held Anchorage Municipal election on April 3, 2012. The Mudflats strongly supported Joe Miller’s (and Scott McAdams’) right to a full hand count of paper ballots in the 2010 election, and for processes that were fair, laws that were consistent, and the ultimate right of citizens to have confidence in their electoral process. Miller has been a strong proponent of the accessibility of the public to a full…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Senate Race, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Ethics, Joe Miller, Municipality of Anchorage, One Anchorage Campaign, Scott McAdams, Vitamin Democracy · Tags 2010 Alaska senate race, Diebold Accuvote, election integrity, Joe W Miller, Senate Joe Miller, Senate Scott McAdams, We the People
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 25, 2012 · 22 Comments
~The security seal used to secure memory cards into Anchorage’s insecure Diebold AccuVote machines. Today in the Mayor’s conference room in City Hall, the Election Commission released the results of its report and recommendations, including revised numbers that say that 65 of 121 precincts ran out of ballots at some point during the day – a higher total than the 55 previously reported. The commission’s report came after two meetings with voters and poll workers who spoke one-on-one with an individual election commissioner. Mudflats contributor Elstun Lauesen was there today when Commission Chair Gwen Matthew read the entire report aloud….
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Category Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Ethics, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, Number crunchery, One Anchorage Campaign, Skulduggery, Strategery · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Election Commission, Barbara Gruenstein, Diebold Accuvote, Ernie Hall, Gwen Matthew, Jacqueline Duke, Municipal election