The Anchorage Election Office “Find Your Dropbox” feature on its website gives incumbents an advantage by showing visitors the name of the incumbent of each district.
Critics point out that this constitutes a partisan/political activity, since it could be construed to favor the election of the incumbent.
If a voter is looking for where the drop box is in his or her district, the map will pinpoint one, but in doing so adds the extra information on a second tab that gives voters the names of only one of the candidates on the ballot.
Dropbox map: https://muniorg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=218a434eff2c42b49e06932d56d2e862
The Anchorage Municipal Election is under way, with ballots having arrived in mailboxes last week. They are due into a drop box or must be postmarked by April 4 at 8 pm to be counted.
The election office has received over 900 ballot envelopes as of Friday night.
