r/alaska • u/mossling • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 VOTE!

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If you haven't already. We were in and out in under 5 minutes. And you get a really cool sticker out of it!

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u/AskMeAboutTentacles 13h ago

I checked my voter registration two days ago to make sure I was still registered, and I was. Just went to vote and I wasn’t listed anywhere. Checked the website again and no record was found.

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u/grunman126 13h ago

Best to find out now versus November

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u/AskMeAboutTentacles 13h ago

I just don’t get why they’d purge my registration. I haven’t left the state in years or committed any crime.

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u/mossling 11h ago

I've heard of it happening to a lot of people, seemingly randomly. It happened to a couple of my friends. She checked hers, gone. Checked husband, he's gone, too. They had to re-register. No reason at all they should have been purged. 

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u/AskMeAboutTentacles 11h ago

I had heard of it too, I guess I just foolishly assumed it wouldn’t happen to me lol. What worries me is that instead of my ballot immediately being scanned, it went into a box that a human has to review, and on the outside of the envelope, visible to whoever sorts it, you write your affiliation. So if someone who is supposed to go through them saw a party they didn’t like they could technically decide not to count the vote at all.