For most of Alaska, Tuesday is not Election Day. But for Midtown Anchorage, there’s an election going on that ends at 8 pm on Oct. 26.
Voters are deciding whether to recall one of the “notorious nine” on the Anchorage Assembly: Meg Zaletel, who represents an area from Rogers Park to Abbott Road, over to C Street and north to portions of Spenard. The race is said to be razor-close.
District 4 Assemblywoman Zaletel became cross-threaded with conservative voters when she helped manipulate CARES Act funds to purchase the Golden Lion Hotel as a home for drug users. Ostensibly, it was to be used for a drug and alcohol treatment center and was part of former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’ homeless industrial complex plan, a spendy plan that involved purchasing numerous properties around town for ill-defined purposes. Mayor Bronson has instead used the hotel as a center to dispense monoclonal antibodies to those who catch Covid.
As in May, conservatives are not taking chances with this election. The Anchorage City Clerk has shown that she’ll do what she can to back Zaletel, as she did when she fought the recall petition over a year ago through the courts — unsuccessfully.
The Recall Zaletel campaigners have brought in a recreational vehicle to use as an observation station in the parking lot of the Anchorage Election office at 619 Ship Creek Avenue, in order to keep an eye on the Clerk’s Office during the final receipt and counting of the ballots.
During the mayoral election, there were numerous documented irregularities and activities around the building, including people coming into the unsecured building late at night and an unexplained malfunctioning of the fire alarm that sent everyone scurrying out of the building. That happened shortly after Assemblyman Chris Constant signed out, but no other link to him has ever been established. He was a visitor on behalf of the Forrest Dunbar for Mayor campaign, which failed in the May runoff.
The Bronson for Mayor campaign brought in Dave Bronson’s recreational vehicle to use as the command center for the campaign’s effort to monitor the counting of ballots.
The Recall Zaletel campaigners say they are protecting the integrity of the election and ensuring manipulation doesn’t occur.
But this is sure to irritate Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones, who along with the Assembly, is planning to pass an ordinance this year that blocks the public from being able to see what is going on at Election Central. The Clerk works for the Assembly, not the mayor, and she took issue with the observers from the Bronson campaign during the April-May election.
The Recall campaign has four observers on the inside of the facility as of this writing, and there is nothing out of the ordinary going on, they have reported. Voters in the district have until 8 pm to drop their ballots in area drop boxes, or get their ballots hand-postmarked at the Airport Post Office before 11 pm, to ensure it is counted.
It’s important that your signature on the envelope match closely your signature on your driver’s license, as the Clerk has sent reject notifications to those whose signatures don’t match closely enough.
8,669 ballots have been returned out of 36,000 sent out in the district. During the last cycle for the April election, about 10,000 were turned in from Midtown.
No public employee should be allowed to block the general public from transparent election process is. This Barbara lady needs to be fired immediately.
Agree! I really hope she gets out. Both of them.
Susan (or anybody), do you know if they’re still using Dominion voting machines in Anchorage?
I heard one guy on the Michael Dukes show saying they were used in Kodiak for the October 5th vote there.
Anchorage elections do use Dominion vote-counting machines. – sd
As long as this continues, the deviant left will continue to win. This is a proven cheating platform and needs to be scrapped immediately!! Where’s the outcry??
Barbara Jones has sworn on her mother’s grave that cheating and commiting election fraud to help the Left-wing agenda is something that she has already taken an oath to do.
I always thought that elections should be managed and counted by non-partisans? Jones is absolutely Stalinesque.
In the last few days, I have gone door-to-door to encourage voters to Recall Meg Zaletel and turn in their ballots at a drop box by 8:00 p.m. today. In this work, I realized that:
1) MANY voters did not receive their ballots from the Barbara Jones, the municipal clerk who works for the assembly (in some cases one member of a household received a ballot while at least one other member of that household did not),
2) MANY voters do not realize that the ballots are due by today at 8:00 p.m.,
3) SOME voters are so disgusted by the highly questionable “vote by mail” system that they, despite serious objections to the current assembly majority, decided not to vote in this election,
4) SOME voters do not understand that they cannot vote in this election where they usually vote (at a local elementary school, for example), and
5) ONLY one person was rude and disrespectful towards me as I asked her to help Recall Meg Zaletel; her final comment to me however was that we recall the entire assembly.
If this vote-by-mail system is to be used in our future, then we must convince voters that their efforts are important, worthwhile, and meaningful. AND Barbara Jones needs to “tighten up” her processes to insure that all eligible voters, and no other voters, receive their ballots and that the vote counting is fair, honest, and accurate!
Liar, liar pants on ?
The irony here is that progressives bemoan voting in person with an I.D. saying that it suppresses voters but what you found is exactly what’s happening, to the very same people. Remember, voter suppression is okay as long as it works in your favor.
Going forward this is going to be SOP when dealing with the communist left. They will stop at nothing to gain power.
To them it’s not about representing constituents of all types. It’s about putting the boot on your neck and control.
Praying she will be shown the door, or in the Hipsters lingo, CANCELLED.
As Ronald Reagan said: “Trust, but verify”.
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Correction: with these Marxists, such as Babs Jones, strike the “trust”. Such people can NOT be trusted, ever, as they have proven on numerous occasions, and in numerous ways, that they have done and will do ANYTHING to retain (and expand) their power. ANYTHING.
Wow! Glad to see the brown shirts out there making sure everyone votes the right way, or doesn’t vote at all.
This is voter intimidation and suppression, not verification. This is a step in the direction of declaring every election bogus so the results can be declared invalid.
Before we want to walk down this path, perhaps we had better prove that voter fraud has occurred in past elections, and not just people voting for someone who has died (this has happened in a few, as in single digits nationwide, instances, and was perpetrated by Republican voters) or other baseless claims. The upshot is that if an election is declared fraudulent without real evidence, it can be declared fraudulent by either losing candidate.
This is a tactic used by despots and oligarchs. I’m embarrassed to call myself an Alaskan in the face of these tactics. Voter manipulation has got to stop. Pounding on the windows of the voter counting facility has got to stop. Accosting election officials in parking lots has got to stop. Let me remind you all that in AZ, the so-called audit found Biden won by about 400 votes more than the official state tally. So much for voter fraud, not that anyone can’t come up with some unsupportable reason to claim the election is bogus.
Either we trust the election process, which has worked well for us in the past (a lot of Republicans won close races in states that Trump lost, but didn’t seem to mind that alleged fraudulent elections put them into office), or we don’t. And if we don’t, then all bets are off.
BTW, how many recall advocates are willing to cast doubt on the accuracy of the results if the recall succeeds? Show of hands, please.
Homo, our elections ARE manipulated, corrupted and lack legitimacy today, most especially with the opaque and highly intermediated mail-in voting system. As far as I’m concerned, virtually ALL of our institutions, particularly governmental, are utterly lacking in legitimacy and authority today. And it is primarily (not exclusively by any means, but primarily) the radical leftist extremists such as yourself who are to blame for this, because for them, and for you, EVERYTHING —- lying, cheating, stealing — is seen as ‘just’ and fair game if it furthers their agenda and the expansion of their power.
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This growing distrust by the public in our institutions, and in our society, rests largely in your laps.
The problem is that Trump, who lost the election fairly and squarely and whose loss was verified by Republican election officials over and over again, is the one who was trying to steal the election by lying, cheating, and advocating for the violent overthrow of the electoral process.
Distrust in government and its institutions is sown and nurtured by Trump and his sycophants.
Denying this truth is a recipe for anarchy and disaster. These are not the acts of patriots, these are the acts of traitors.
Gabby Ledoux
“This is voter intimidation and suppression, not verification. ”
“Voter manipulation has got to stop.”
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The votes are already cast. How can you suppress voters after they have cast their votes?
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And…
“Let me remind you all that in AZ, the so-called audit found Biden won by about 400 votes more than the official state tally.”
Yes. That is what the recount officially found. The audit results paint a very different picture.
And, for those that do not understand the difference, let me illustrate.
1. I give you $100, you say I did not.
2. We both count it, and there are 100 pieces of paper that say $1 on them.
3. Officially, you got $100.
4. However, when you audit the pieces of paper, you find out that 20 of those pieces of paper are Monolopy money, not actual US currency.
Which is what happened in AZ. They counted the pieces of paper, and the official recount added votes to the Biden side. But, when they audited the ballots to see if they were legally cast, there were enough ballots that failed the audit to cast doubt on the overall outcome.
Valid elections will not happen until done in person, verified with ID and counted by non-partisan/bipartisan judges. Until then we get Biden/Zaletel.
Agree 100% completely with you.
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I do not want more people voting, I want more informed people voting. Checking a box on a mailed ballot is not informed people.
Voting citizens have a duty to know the issues and candidates. Growing up, my family always voted straight democratic ticket, even while bemoaning the Viet Nam war and railing against every issue promoted by the party, we still posted signs and bumper stickers and went to nursing homes to gather votes. They still do today. They stand for Right To Life and vote for abortion.
Get a life. Even with this, if you don’t get your way you’ll claim “fraud”. What a joke.
I guess we could coin this the RV of integrity and the Jamboree of Justice. Thank you Mayor Bronson, these people need to be watched 24/7. Elections are an inconvenience to them and they have no guilt in manipulation and outright cheating of our system.
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No amount of watching can stop the Dominion vote flippers. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom. The name is fitting: Democrats now have DOMINION over the entire country
I hope for you anchorage that voter fraud will be prevented this time
I began a petition to demand a forensic audit on the 2020 election
Please go to petitions.com and look for “forensic audit needed especially because of rank choice voting “
Looking for 25 thousand signatures to present to Kevin Myer
Sorry Susanne
petitions.net is where to sign forensic audit 2020 election
Dear God. Mental illness on parade. That includes you, Suzanne.
Psychological projection: So easy, a radical leftist caveman can do it!
Trumpist knows what projection is? How ironic.
Oh yeah, when I think “election integrity” I think “deplorables in a Winnebago”. All I see in this comment thread is mental illness. And that includes you, Suzanne.
Ranked choice voting will be our downfall and it was past with Dominion and other b*******. Alaska will be blue in 5 years. Unless we step up
Looks like the conservative base lost again in anchorage
Looking from the outside in, I have a lot of suspicion about your results?!
Elections anymore are looking more like appointments that have been predetermined.
Yes there has been exceptions like Bronson and Trump but those are incredibly rare.
I don’t trust the election process anymore and have began a petition, demanding a forensic audit on the 2020 election
If you want to sign , petitions.net , forensic audit 2020 focus on rank choice voting
I suggest another one start for this recall vote because if I were you I would not trust these results!
The charade began with taking anything in for judicial approval. The process should be legislative, the state legislators. The usurped serve a written protest to the offending usurpers in written individual protest giving official notice to cure. When the US Constitution usurpers on the Anchorage will not obey the US Constitution our remedy and court of justice is to deliver en masse protests seeking remedy from the tyranny like this latest lock out at chambers. Ask for an investigation by Alaska’s legislature; when they fail and they will complain about them also to the US Congress and ask for a Congressional investigation. Send a courtesy copy of your complaints to the US Commander in Chief, Donald J Trump and his Secret Service asking for remedy immediately for loss of our guaranteed form of government the guaranteed republic in these United fifty States.
I have a suggestion for all those who think the voting system is corrupt and manipulated. Don’t vote! In fact, I encourage you not to vote so you can show your contempt for the system. And the more strongly you believe the system is corrupt and unfair, the more it is your patriot duty not to vote.
Please, show me your true commitment to this issue by taking a pledge, here and now, not to vote in any future elections. Take that pledge as a response to this comment. I await your Yeas and Nays.
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