The latest on Anchorage's April municipal election.

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This is more and more looking deliberate.

http://www.themudflats.org/2012/07/24/the-muni-played-favorites-with-ballot-distribution/

The Muni played favorites with ballot distribution

In last week’s installment of the Municipality of Anchorage’s continuing 2012 Election debacle, new Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones made a disturbing find while attempting to (quite literally) clean up the old Municipal Clerk’s mess…141 unaccounted-for ballots.

This has led the trusty Election Commission to meet this coming Thursday and review the ballots they missed the first two times around.

While all of that has been going on, members of our Recount Observation Team have continued to research and slowly pursue the auditing process the Municipality has refused to provide.

…and it’s been free of charge…

The latest bombshell was discovered by dogged number-cruncher Jeanne Friedman. She (like the rest of us) was disgusted that the Muni’s multiple reports on the blank ballots distributed to each precinct did not add up. Descrepancies occurred in the vast majority of precincts and sometimes to the tune of hundreds of ballots in a single precinct.

Her Comparison of Election Reports shows these descrepancies and by themselves they are disturbing. However, what she discovered by accident was downright infuriating.

The Municipality “played favorites” on how they distributed blank ballots to each precinct.

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This is how they do it. Precincts in poor and minority neighborhoods received the bare minimum of ballots, almost guaranteeing that they would run out. Precincts in wealthy, conservative neighborhoods received up to 101% of the number of ballots required by municipal code. There's no way this was accidental.