Some rural Alaska absentee voting sites failed to open ahead of midterms
A voter casts an early vote in Juneau at the State Office Building on Oct. 26, 2026. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
Polling places in some rural Alaska communities have failed to fully open to voters, more than a week after early and in-person absentee voting across Alaska started on Oct. 19.
Exactly how many sites failed to open on time is unclear. In a letter to the Division of Elections and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom on Friday, Democratic Anchorage Sen. Bill Wielechowski said voters in 18 communities had reported trouble with their local voting stations.
“The information that I got was…
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