26-08-2017 01:54 via alaskapublic.org

State to replace Accu-Vote machines

(Katie Basile / KYUK)The State of Alaska is on target to provide election materials in Alaska’s Native languages in order to meet a court-ordered deadline in a voting rights case.
Many at yesterday’s hearing, held by the Alaska Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to review the language translation effort, praised the state, but also worried that plans to move Alaska to a vote-by-mail system would disenfranchise Alaska Native voters whose primary language is not
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