Posted on 10/06/2022 2:26:58 PM PDT by george76
In what is apparently a first for Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly passed an ordinance this week that will prohibit the use of voting tabulation machines for borough elections, starting next year.
The new Mat-Su ordinance, approved Tuesday night, caps off a months-long effort from a group of residents determined to ban the use of voting machines spurred on by false claims of election fraud. Last month, the Assembly unanimously voted to use a hand-count to verify the results of the Nov. 8 borough election, but voting machines will still be used.
Borough officials determined that it would be a "great risk" to stop using machines and mandate hand-counting for this year's borough election because there would be inadequate time "to properly prepare for a change of this magnitude,".. . Instead, those changes are set to be in place for next November's municipal election.
The new ordinance will require hand counting of ballots on election night at each of the borough's 41 precincts, with election workers calling results in, instead of counting taking place at the borough office in Palmer.
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Republican legislators in at least six states have introduced legislation to mandate hand-counting of ballots and ban voting machines. Similar debates have been going on at the county level, including in the battleground state of Nevada, where a legal challenge has been filed against a rural county that has moved to start hand-counting mail-in ballots two weeks before Election Day.
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The borough had signed an eight-year agreement with the state to lease 46 Dominion voting machines at a cost of $72,257 per year. That will end June 30.
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At a state level, 270 precincts use Dominion voting machines to count votes. Another 131 precincts, mostly in rural areas of the state, hand count ballots.
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Methinks Yahoo doth protest too much
Not to be confused with the Matsu which was a topic in one of the debates between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960 (along with Quemoy).
Yahoo reporters are spurred on by false claims of the wonders of socialism.
I am old enough to remember that we ONLY voted on one day-—
NO mail in ballots-—
Absentee ballots ONLY under the strictest of guidelines & information/ and
Votes were counted in a decent amount of time.
NO MACHINES
Next year is about a year too late. Don’t worry about it woodchucks. They’ll be nothing left to vote for next year.
They should smash the machines so they can’t be used the next time or in another town.
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