Posted on 08/24/2010 7:49:27 PM PDT by taildragger
AS 15.20.201. Time of District Absentee Ballot Counting Review.
(a) No less than seven days preceding the day of election, the election supervisor, in the presence and with the assistance of the district absentee ballot counting board, shall review all voter certificates of absentee ballots received by that date. The review of absentee ballots shall continue at times designated by the election supervisor until completed.
(b) Counting of absentee ballots that have been reviewed shall begin at 8:00 p.m., local time, on the day of the election at places designated by each election supervisor and shall continue until all absentee ballots reviewed and eligible for counting have been counted. The counting teams shall report the count of absentee ballots to the district absentee ballot counting board. An election supervisor or an election official may not count absentee ballots before 8:00 p.m., local time, on the day of the election. Counting of the absentee ballots shall continue at times designated by the election supervisor until all absentee ballots are counted.
(c) Not later than the 15th day following the day of the election, the district absentee ballot counting board shall certify the absentee ballot review.
(d) Absentee ballots received in the office of an election supervisor after the completion of the district absentee ballot counting review shall be forwarded immediately to the director by the most expeditious service.
AS 15.20.205. Time of District Questioned Ballot Counting Review.
(a) On the second day following the day of the election, the election supervisor or the supervisor’s designee, in the presence and with the assistance of the district questioned ballot counting board, shall review all voter certificates of questioned ballots received by that date. The review of questioned ballots shall continue at times designated by the election supervisor until completed.
(b) Counting of questioned ballots which have been reviewed shall begin on the third day following the day of the election and shall continue at times designated by the election supervisor until all questioned ballots reviewed and eligible for counting have been counted. The counting teams shall report the count to the district questioned ballot counting board.
(c) The district questioned ballot counting board may certify the questioned ballot totals as soon as the count is completed but no later than the 15th day following the election.
(d) Questioned ballots received after certification of the count shall be forwarded immediately to the director by the most expeditious service.
looks like the questioned ballots should be counted on Friday.
Thank you for all the information you’ve provided.
Many of the absentee ballots are mail in from villages. Some villages don’t have every day mail.
Ah, sort of like the way the mail is here. We get “route days” every other day of the week, where the mail is delivered out to the mailbox down the road from the house.
Thanks. My son fished in the Kodiak Bay and they were lucky to get mail once a week. OTOH they could always send mail out on a tneder, but I don’t think that would be allowed for ballots.
Are absentee ballots sent to one location in the state or just to the local precincts and the tallies sent into one central location?
Do we know exactly the difference between the ballots returned and those that were requested?
Do we know which precinct these ballots were requested from?
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