Locked state bag with a completed ballot and election materials was found off an Anchorage road

The Alaska Division of Elections is investigating how a bag containing a voted ballot and election materials was found last week lying off the side of a road near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

Elections director Carol Beecher said the bag was being delivered to Anchorage from Old Harbor, a majority Alaska Native village on Kodiak Island. An air carrier contracted by the U.S. Postal Service lost the bag, but it was recovered intact, she said. The voted ballot was successfully sent to Juneau to be counted, she said.

Kyle Brunke, who works at the airport for United Parcel Service, said he found the election materials bag on his early morning drive to work Aug. 23. Rounding the corner on Lockheed Avenue, Brunke said, he spotted a “big red bag sitting on the side of the road.”

“I got out of my vehicle, went over, picked it up, saw that it said ‘Division of Elections,’ and it had some weight to it,” he said.




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