Division of Elections keeps 1,900 Alaskans on ‘inactive noncitizen’ list, awaiting verification

Voters mark their ballots at Ketchikan’s Precinct No. 2 at The Plaza on Nov. 6, 2018. (Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it struck from the active voter list this summer.
The division’s director has acknowledged that the delisting was based, at least partly, on old drivers license data that suggested the people were not citizens, even though the Division of Elections records showed they were citizens. Often,