The Anchorage Assembly has indefinitely postponed voting on a ballot initiative that would make the city clerk an elected official. Assembly member Forrest Dunbar said he believed similar ordinances were giving a platform to election disinformation.
Assembly leadership had decried the proposal because they say an elected clerk may not have the skills needed to do the job. They also said they’re concerned about having elections run in a partisan manner.
“An elected municipal clerk would most definitely have a conflict of interest in preparing for and conducting an election of which he or she is actually listed on the ballot, and most likely would be campaigning during the height of the election process,” Pitts said. “Unfounded claims about elections nationwide, unfounded claims, without evidence, about our own elections, about our own clerk,” Dunbar said. “And for that reason, I urge support to postpone this item indefinitely, and frankly kill the item.”
“I wanted to see this go on the ballot because I do believe that the community and the voters should have a voice,” Allard said.
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