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Anchorage election commission eyes code change, signature database to cut rejected ballots
Summary
Commissioners reviewed rejected-ballot causes and credited a new local signature database with reducing 'no signature match' rejections; staff proposed a municipal code change to let voters update paper signatures at the election center and promised to bring draft language in July.
The Anchorage Municipality Election Commission discussed steps to reduce rejected mail ballots at its meeting, highlighting a local signature database and a proposed municipal code change to allow in-person signature updates.
The chair said one of the "most challenging ones is no signature match," and commissioners heard that a newly built local signature database helped reduce no-signature-match rejections from 602 in 2024 to 386 in 2025. "We built a database... so now we keep those signatures that we retain every year from the division of elections," Municipal Clerk Jamie Hines said,…
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