Clerk calls for independent review of Anchorage election

[Arctic Dave]

Anchorage Municipal Clerk Barbara Gruenstein, who oversees city elections, is calling on Assembly members to launch an outside investigation into the troubled April 3 election.

Gruenstein says she sent the request in a letter to Assembly members today in hopes an external investigation would "add clarity to the issues" of ballot shortages and other Election Day mishaps.

Assembly members grilled the clerk and a deputy clerk about the shortages today at a work session at Loussac Library.

Didn't Gruenstein talk to the deputy clerk about the possibility of Proposition 5, a controversial gay rights measure, jolting voter turnout, asked Assemblyman Bill Starr.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/04/13/2421663/clerk-calls-for-independent-review.html#storylink=cpy


Interested to see how this goes. The Assembly vote against a special investigator was a crock.