Alaska Division of Elections erroneously removed more than 600 citizens from voter list

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: August 7, 2026

Words: 1,113

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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More than 600 U.S. citizens were mistakenly flagged as possible noncitizens and removed from Alaska’s list of active voters earlier this year, the director of the Alaska Division of Elections said Thursday in a letter responding to questions from state lawmakers.

Those citizens were among 3,058 people removed from the list after the division compared its citizenship data to a separate set of records kept by the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles.

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