The Division of Elections has mailed out a second informational postcard to voters to show them how ranked-choice voting works. It’s something the division does to help people who are confused by the odd voting system that Alaska now uses.
This time, unlike the Division’s official voter instruction sent earlier this fall, the candidates are listed as Candidate A, Candidate B, Candidate C and Candidate D.
On the prior instructional offering from the Division of Elections, a candidate named “Harris” was listed in the presidential column, and the division, for unknown reasons, illustrated for voters how to mark “Harris” first for president.
That caught the eye of critics who said that the Division of Elections appeared to be trying to swing the vote toward Kamala Harris.
Division Director Carol Beecher has been explaining on talk radio that it was essentially an error and that the new flyer corrects the problem with unintentional bias.
The Division made another mistake in the official voter pamphlet, when it listed House District candidate Mia Costello as a Democrat. The division sent a correction to all voters in that district showing Costello as a Republican.
