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Some rural Alaska polling stations opened late on election day, a sign of continuing problems

Posted 8/19/26

At least two polling stations in rural Alaska opened late for the Tuesday statewide primary election, the Alaska Division of Elections confirmed late Tuesday, and observers independently reported other sites also opened late. The problem was most acute in the southwestern village of Nunapitchuk, where bad weather grounded flights and kept elections workers from opening […]

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