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ACLU of Alaska Sets up Voter Hotline after Ballot Confusion
Channel 2 NewsThe American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said since it created the Anchorage Voter Hotline Wednesday morning, it’s received dozens of calls from residents complaining about the ballot confusion. Many voters report waiting in line at their...Tags: Voting, Politics, Elections
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Anchorage Election Officials Continue Questioned Ballot Count
Channel 2 NewsAnchorage election officials’ preliminary review of less than half of local precincts has turned up about 3,000 questioned ballots and nearly 800 unscanned ballots, in the wake of widespread ballot shortagesin Tuesday’s municipal elections. A...Tags: Facebook, Voting, Politics, Elections
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Anchorage Assembly Ponders Next Step in Election Investigation
Channel 2 NewsThere seems to be little agreement among Anchorage Assembly members when it comes to how it should investigate this week's blunder during the Anchorage election, when dozens of polling places reported running out of ballots. Assembly Chair Debbie...Tags: Voting, Politics, Elections
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Anchorage Assembly Rejects Election Investigation by Special Counsel
Channel 2 NewsThe Anchorage Assembly rejected a resolution on a 7-4 vote Tuesday night to appoint a special counsel to investigate irregularities and ballot shortages during last week's city elections. Assembly members Paul Honeman, Elvi Gray-Jackson, Patrick Flynn...Tags: Voting, Politics, Elections
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ACLU Requests City Election Records as Ballot Count Continues
Channel 2 NewsThe American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said Thursday that it had requested numerous city records on last week’s troubled elections following widespread ballot shortages,while election workers counted about 1,800 unscanned ballots. Municipal...Tags: Facebook, Voting, Career and Workplace, Employees, Politics
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Anchorage Assembly Grills Election Staff About Ballot Shortages
Channel 2 NewsThe Anchorage Assembly spent Friday afternoon asking the city clerk's office and other election staff about how nearly half of Anchorage’s polling places ran out of ballots, causing some voters to be turned away to a different polling place during...Tags: Voting, Employees, Politics, Elections
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Emails to City Officials Demand Clerk's Firing Over Elections
Channel 2 NewsIn more than 125 emails to city officials, some people are demanding that Anchorage Municipal Clerk Barbara Gruenstein be fired for her handling of the troubled April 3 city elections,according to Anchorage Assembly member Elvi Gray-Jackson. Nearly...Tags: Government, Voting, Public Officials, Politics, Elections
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Downtown Anchorage Sidewalk Sitting Ordinance Could be Reconsidered
Channel 2 NewsThe debate over the controversial Anchorage sidewalk sitting ban is not over yet: it could be reconsidered by the Anchorage Assembly. Assembly members passed the law a couple weeks ago, but that was before they heard a report from Channel 2 News that...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers
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Anchorage Assembly: Sidewalk Sitting Ordinance Should Stand
The Anchorage Assembly voted against taking another look at the controversial ordinance making it illegal to sit on downtown sidewalks.
In a 6-to-5 vote, the assembly voted down the motion to recind the ordinance, that assemblyman Dick Traini had...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Elections, Justice System
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ACLU Sues State, Seeks Return of Medical Records
Channel 2 NewsThe American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is suing the state to get medical records returned to nine patients. The Daily Sitka Sentinel (http://bit.ly/vB3zHU subscription required) reports the records were seized as part of a Medicare fraud...Tags: Health, Government Health Care, Medical Procedures and Tests, Corporate Crime, Medicare
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Possible Protests over New Anchorage Sidewalk Ordinance
The new sidewalk ordinance the Anchorage Assembly passed a week ago could be headed for its first challenge.
When the law takes effect on December 22nd, it would make it illegal to sit or lie down on downtown sidewalks. The assembly voted 7-4 in favor...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Entertainment, Judges, Safety of Citizens, Freedom of the Press
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Third Party Custodian: A Quirk of Alaska Law With Big Consequences
It happens every day of the week in courtrooms all over Alaska.
Today, in Judge Michael Spaan’s Anchorage courtroom, the applicant is a woman with curly black hair, a mother. The judge is hearing bail applications and arraignments.
She’...Tags: Defendants, Prisoners and Detainees, Judges, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Criminals
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