Words with friends: Anchorage clerks arrange Assembly election

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Anchorage voters will elect five of the city’s 11 Assembly members this April. Filing for those races opened Friday. City officials have devised an ingenious ritual to keep elections as fair and impartial as possible.
The Clerk’s office isn’t exactly sure how long the Scrabble ritual has been going on. Barbara Jones guestimates the tiles are from a set that’s about ten years old. Photo: Zachariah Hughes.
City Clerk Barbara Jones is surrounded by staff as sh