Elections

Red king crab (NOAA) June 4, 2021 by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media Last we checked, king crab was narrowly ahead of three other Alaska seafoods in the Division of Elections’ mock primary. King crab, of course, will never hold elected office. But for now at least, it’s got a lead for the title of “Best Seafood in Alaska” in an online election …

January 19, 2021 by Lex Treinen, Alaska Public Media The Robert B. Atwood building and neighbors in downtown Anchorage. (Alaska Public Media staff photo) Several state buildings in Juneau and Anchorage are closed out of an “abundance of caution” due to fears about pre-inauguration violence. The closures were announced in an internal memo from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s chief of staff, Ben Stevens, on Friday. …

January 6, 2021 by Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media Hearing the news of the violence in the U.S. Capitol reminded Kodiak Republican Sen. Gary Stevens, 79, of an experience he had as an army lieutenant in 1968 when his battalion was called into Washington, D.C., after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “Watching TV today reminded me …

Terry Haines presents the Midday Report featuring: Kodiak reports a Covid-19 death. The Division of Elections has certified the 2020 general election and Kodiak had a relatively high voter turn out. A 37-year-old man in Pilot Station dies from Covid-19 before he could get transported to a hospital. SE Alaska is taking a beating from a series of storms. All …

The Alaska Division of Elections finally tallied Kodiak’s 3500 absentee votes on Thursday, and while those votes didn’t change much on the statewide election landscape, we have a better idea of how Kodiak voted this election. Generally speaking, Kodiak went for Republican candidates again this year, but that doesn’t mean the island is completely red. For the state Senate P …

The Alaska Division of Elections will begin counting absentee mail-in votes today, working through the rest of week so that Alaska can finally declare which candidate for president has earned Alaska’s three electoral college votes, among other races. Here’s what to watch for with Kodiak’s vote: For the 2020 General Election, Kodiak cast 4000 ballots on Election Day.  But nearly …

Another 500 absentee votes from Kodiak were received by the Alaska Division of Elections yesterday, raising Kodiak’s mail-in total to 3,063 ballots, a record for the district. Adding these ballots to the Election Day total of 4,022 gives Kodiak a voter turnout of nearly 7,100, a few hundred short of the record set in 2016 of 7500 ballots. With 14,000 …

With all Kodiak precincts reporting, we have a clearer idea of how Kodiak voted in this week’s elections, but about 3,000 absentee Kodiak ballots are yet to be counted. These are the state’s unofficial results as of Wednesday morning. With over 4,000 votes counted so far, here’s what we know now about how Kodiak is leaning. Republican Gary Stevens is …

KMXT will be posting updates of Alaska and precincts reporting on tonight’s elections here. Note that over 120,000 absentee votes will not be counted until next week, including about 3,000 Kodiak ballots. This update is given as of 9:00 am on Nov. 4. These are the state’s unofficial results. Local Kodiak Races State Senate P (15 of 23 precincts reporting) …

Kodiak polling locations saw business as usual for voters over the course of Election Day this Tuesday. Anita Sholl, election official at the Mission Precinct, said that by mid-Tuesday afternoon they had seen nearly 900 voters, or about 125 voters an hour. There was even a line outside of Bayside Fire Department as early as 6:30 this morning. Other than …