The Division of Elections website was dysfunctional on Election Day morning. Visitors were given a message that “The Elections Website is Temporary Unavailable. We apologize for the delay. The Elections website will be available shortly.”
Update: The Division of Elections website is working again as of 9:45 a.m.
Voters can find their precinct and voting locations by using this tool:
https://akelections.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=579890d66c7e40ae9f7cc227d76669b1
If that tool is too confusing, try this: https://myvoterportal.alaska.gov to look up your precinct.
The Division of Elections offered no explanation for why the website was not working. It was down, as of 9 a.m., for at least one hour. Across Southcentral, there have been high winds.
Update: Around 9 a.m. the message on the website said the reason for the dysfunction was due to high traffic volume.
People in line at voting locations, where lines are long, are saying they are having to cast “questioned ballots,” since the website is not working. If you are voting at your local precinct, you should not have to cast a questioned ballot.
This story will be updated.
They have one job, a fair and free election and they can’t seem to get that right.
Just remember in Alaska the Dunleavy Administration is in charge of the Division of Elections, incompetence is his standard operating procedure. Don’t worry he will blame the left.
You’re correct but remember who’s in the hen house.
We can’t assume anything just wait until tomorrow where a mass of votes Mysteriously show up.
Who is in charge of elections in Alaska?
Dahlstrom strikes again!
The ballot scanner was offline at Bayshore Elementary at about 8:20 this morning. Ballots were being dropped into the machine anyway, and the poll worked said that another machine was on the way “we hope”.
And so it begins, again….
Yes wait until tomorrow and see the votes that just happen to show up and get counted.
We have been down this road before.
I like the governor but I do believe he and his Lt. Governor have dropped the ball on election security. The state voting roll still have my son’s name on them and he hasn’t lived in AK. for over 8 years. Cheating on an election is about un-American as you can get. It’s treason!
Hopefully, the early voting numbers shall offset this supposed ‘hiccup’, that is, ‘banked’ votes versus supposedly ‘questioned’ ballots.
Nice “they” got that fixed.
…it rained all night the day I left
the weather it was dry
the sun so hot
I froze to death
Savannah don’t you cry…