Alaska's Ballot Grace Period: Vote, Then Wait on Plane

In vast Alaska, voters in remote areas cast ballots and rely on planes or mail to reach officials, making a grace period for late-arriving ballots a practical necessity to avoid disenfranchising citizens. With 33% of precincts hand-counting and shipping physical ballots to Juneau via the unreliable U.S. Postal Service, especially in Native villages lacking post offices, timely counting demands flexibility. Read more about this...