The Special Primary Election to fill the vacancy because of the death of the late Congressman Don Young is going to be held on Saturday, June 11. The by-mail election has a ballot filled with nearly 48 candidates vying for that seat. Voters automatically should have received ballots through the mail, which were sent out beginning April 27. In the Special Primary Election, voters will vote for just one candidate.
Director of Elections, Gail Fenumiai, tells KSRM:
“This special general election is being conducted by mail. That decision was made shortly after the death of Congressman Young given that the election had to be conducted within 90 days. The division did not feel there was time to recruit poll workers, train them, get equipment deployed, etc. Ballots were mailed to all registered voters. Voters have been submitting their ballots and absentee in person and early voting started on May 27th and will continue up through Saturday, June 11th in the region elections offices. A full list of those locations is also available on the Division’s website. Currently, the division staff is busy and continues to be busy logging all the ballots that come in and we have bipartisan absentee review boards who are then reviewing all those ballots to determine eligibility of that voter to have cast the ballot and we will be counting and releasing results on Saturday evening.”
The mailed ballot must be returned by June 11, and it must include your signature, an identifier, and a witness signature.
Additionally, if a person decides not to vote by mail, Fenumiai says:
“They would prefer to vote in person or if they’ve misplaced their ballot, lost their ballot, people can go to one of our 150-plus locations across the state and vote in person – absentee in person or an early voted ballot, depending on the location.”
Fenumiai says that the Division of Elections will hold their final ballot count on June 21 with a target certification date of June 25.
As of Wednesday, there have been 108,729 ballots mailed into the Division of Elections.
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