Fairbanks borough implements first hand-count audit after ordinance
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - A hand-counted audit of municipal election results performed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough has shown complete agreement with the count given by voting machines in the borough.
Under an April ordinance, which passed in an assembly vote of 5-4, the borough’s Canvass Board must hand-count results from early voting ballots for a randomly selected contested race, as well as ballots from a randomly chosen race from each of two randomly chosen precincts, for a total of three blocks of votes.
According to April Trickey, auditors counted 2,846 ballots from the race for school board seat C from early voting, as well as 492 ballots from borough assembly seat B between both Goldstream 2 and Moose Creek precincts.
In order to perform the count, which Trickey said took about five hours between the combined races, the three auditors first had to separate borough ballots from those of other jurisdictions.
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