One of the YouTube livestream cameras at the Anchorage Election Center was down from March 5 to April 1 with no explanation.
After inquiries to the Municipal Clerk’s office by the Alaska Watchman, the camera feed was restored within hours, on April 1, without explanation.
The other 16 cameras appear to have been working fine, but camera 10 was blacked out for 27 days with a notice on the livestream stating, “The server has lost connection to the camera.”
On April 11 of last year, the same camera went dark for several hours after working fine previously. Camera 10 points at two tables in the Election Center building. Behind the tables, there occasionally appear to be multiple pallets of incoming ballots.
The Alaska Watchman called multiple times and emailed the Anchorage Clerk’s Office for an explanation as to why camera 10 went dark for nearly a month. As of this publication, there has been no explanation.
Anchorage instituted the live feed surveillance cameras in conjunction with the controversial shift to all-mail ballot elections, which began with the April 2021 election. Before that, Anchorage primarily used in-person voting with some absentee options.
The move to universal mail-in ballots centralized ballot processing at the Election Center headquarters and prompted the need for greater public visibility and transparency into how ballots were received, sorted, and counted.
The multi-camera YouTube livestream is intended to give the public real-time access to the Election Center to mitigate controversy over the mail-in system.
In 2021, the cameras were only on during daytime working hours. By 2022, the feeds were 24/7.
On the morning of April 1, 16 of the 17 Election Center cameras were functioning on the YouTube livestream. They show the loading docks and various points around the inside of the Election Center. Only camera 10 was dark until later that afternoon, when it was restored.
A March 31 public comment on the official Municipality of Anchorage Clerk’s Office Facebook page expresses concern about “camera 10” being down during an active election when ballots are being received and processed. The commenter asked why it hadn’t been fixed, but there were no replies, statements, or updates from officials in those threads or elsewhere.
This is a developing story.
TAKING ACTION
— Click here to contact the Anchorage Clerk’s Office, which oversees elections.
— Click here to contact members of the Anchorage Assembly.
— Click here to contact Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance.
— Click here to watch the Election Center livestream video.
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That’s just one of many ways the Anchorage election office manages to make sure elections stay left. They always manage to somehow keep people from seeing what they are doing.
What do you expect from Anchorage, fair elections???
I count two ballots before I count the same two ballots and then I count them two times more…
Crime with no consequences! It’s the norm!
Just another way for these liberal demoncrats to win the elections of what they want and who they want.
Ol’ Queen supreme being (LaFrance) of Anchorage pushing to make Anchorage a socialist community.
So far, those responsible for election fraud across the country since 2020 are Republicans. Think January 6.
Hahahaha!! Save it. Whether the right or left wins election fraud or rigging is rare. This is soft admit it. People aren’t dumb. Trickle down economics, countless wars, disastrous economic policies that lead to swelling of our national debt, Citizens United, billionaire friendly tax’s cuts, gerrymandering, fomenting insurrections and taking away not improving healthcare is what republican policies have brought the people of America. Republicans stand for nothing. You sold your soul and exposed your true selves by blindly and happily worshiping the most despicable individual to ever hold our highest office. This is a disaster. It will get so much worse. Our children will be sent die in an illegal war that will do nothing to benefit us. Prices will not go down. Jobs are disappearing. Manufacturing jobs returning are a pipe dream. The only thing this administration has made great is China. But you’re right, we really should be worried about camera 10 being out because if those radical leftists rig their way into office we might not ever prosecute all the libtards in the Epstein files.
Just as with any high-security facility, all areas within the vote counting center should be monitored by at least two cameras overlapping coverage with a visual and aural alarm when any camera feed is down.
Spot on. For all the whinging of the Left Marxists about “elections are secure” – and the money pi$$ed away on frivolous wants vs needs, it’s a HUGE tell. The Left will be happy (temporarily) when it’s blue from San Diego to Utqiagvik.
Why am I not reading a follow-up of the investigation, and the culprit put in prison??? Laws for thee, not for me. I’m calling TRUMP!