A razor-close Anchorage Assembly contest between conservative Dave Donley and left-leaning Janice Park may be headed to a recount.
According to a notice from the city clerk, a recount must happen within seven days of the final certification if the leading candidate is ahead by less than a 0.5% margin.
As of April 14, the District 4 Midtown Anchorage race has Park leading Donley by 0.44%. If the results after the April 23 Public Session of Canvass show the margin remains less than 0.5%, an automatic recount will take place at the official Election Center on Friday, April 24, beginning at 10 a.m.
The recount will be open to observation by the public. The process will be limited to reviewing the electronic version of the ballot images, adjudicating those images, tabulating them, and comparing them to the original results for the District 4 race.
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If the recount occurs, there will be a special meeting of the Election Commission on Monday, April 27, at 2 p.m. to produce a report of the results of the recount for the Assembly. The Assembly is scheduled to certify the election at its April 28 meeting.
Donley, a longtime conservative Anchorage school board member, led on election night, April 7, but has since fallen behind his Planned Parenthood-backed opponent as mail-in ballots have continued to trickle in. He is seeking to win a seat on an Assembly that is already dominated by leftist members. As of April 14, he now trails by 47 votes – 4,968 to 5,015.
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We will keep counting until we get Our Left Leaning candidate the numbers, she will need to win.
I guess they didn’t have enough dead people or people not living here voting, so they’re going to have to mail a few more ballots, it’s ok if it’s pass the deadline.
Wait we just found this bag in the corner, with a bunch of ballots. All for Janice, with only 2 votes for Donley. We Win
Oh yes, the trickle in mail in votes. What a crock of poop! If we keep this B.S. way of voting I think the ballots need to be in and counted NLT election night! this week or longer isnt fair. If your voting by mail and its for Anchorage Assembly all the honest ballots should have been in already. How many got lost in the system so as to not been able to count them already. Also if your going to VBM you knew a week earlier so there’s no reason for this B.S. It’s another liberal attempt to change our elections. Anchorage wants only liberals on the Assembly that is why this is being held up. I say go with the vote from Tuesday night and sorry to Parks. run again next time!
Mail in balloting, what a farce.
Recount v.
to manipulate the illusion of democratic choice by the entrenched power structure so as to effect the wanted outcome
Remember the scam is “Only the electronic image ballots will be recounted” Not the paper ballots!!! For those who are not aware, an electronic image is just that; a computer graphic file that can be manipulated, and or additional images can be added via dead voters, voters who never vote, voters who have moved out of state still on the voter rolls, and people who are registered illegally and voted. So, I ask why can’t we compare the paper ballots against the electronic ballots????? Oh wait, I guess that’s so they can CHEAT????
The unchecked expansion of mail-in ballots, distributed indiscriminately without rigorous safeguards like mandatory voter ID, in-person verification, or strict chain-of-custody protocols, opens the floodgates to fraud and undermines the very foundation of representative democracy. When ballots arrive by the millions through the postal system—often weeks or months in advance—opportunities multiply for ballot harvesting, forgery, coercion of vulnerable voters, and outright fabrication. Dead people “vote,” non-citizens cast ballots, and harvested stacks mysteriously favor one side in key precincts. This isn’t mere inconvenience; it’s a systemic vulnerability that erodes the principle of one person, one vote, transforming elections from solemn public rituals into shadowy exercises where the true will of the electorate becomes impossible to certify with confidence. The result is a slow-motion subversion of trust, where the innocent act of mailing a ballot becomes a vector for those who would game the system.
Even worse is the corrosive practice of counting these ballots for weeks after Election Day, turning what should be a decisive, transparent verdict into a protracted, opaque slog. On election night, results reflect the clear, contemporaneous choices of those who bothered to show up in person or vote early under scrutiny; then, suddenly, “miracle” batches appear from hidden warehouses or urban strongholds, often defying statistical norms and flipping outcomes in battleground areas. This delay doesn’t serve voters—it breeds cynicism, invites endless litigation, and hands operatives time to “find” or “cure” ballots in ways that would be impossible under same-day, in-person rules. It signals to the world that American elections are not sacred and final but malleable contests of endurance, where victory goes not to the candidate with the most legitimate support on the appointed day, but to whichever side masters the art of the post-election scramble. In a republic, this is not progress; it is the quiet poison that kills faith in self-government.
Soft and weak. Whine, whine, whine. If republicans weren’t hypocrites, maybe someone would care. Republican morals are a moving target. You love the constitution but vote and beat your chest for an insurrectionist. You are fiscally responsible but watch and cheer as the president that added more to the national debt in 4 years than any had in 8 set the stage for future insolvency. Maybe if you spent more time with your families and get off the high horse we wouldn’t have so many young white men shooting up schools. Just like the Epstein files are full of white dudes, so is the active shooter lists. Grow up, thicken the skin and stop holding the rest of the country back. Orange stain literally called Georgia asking to rig the results. Face meet palm!
I see all the antichrist Repugnant MAGAs are out in force complaining because their weasel candidate and obstructionist is about to lose his jerkazz stupid election.