Nationally, doubt in the integrity of elections has threatened the fundamentals of democracy. But in Alaska, Gail Fenumiai just kept going, a steady hand on the rudder, no matter what the wild 2022 election year threw at her.
Gail Fenumiai in the Anchorage office of the Division of Elections in 2014.
In March, she learned the slow march toward the state’s first ranked choice election would be a quick sprint, due to the death of Congressman Don Young and the sudden need for a special election.In August, four months earlier than planned, she conducted the first ranked choice election. And, just to further challenge an elections administrator, that special election took place on the same day as the first regular primary. Which wasn’t all that regular because this year it was under new rules.
Fenumiai hasn’t taken a position on whether the system Alaskans adopted in 2020, the nonpartisan primary coupled with a ranked choice general, is good or bad. She’s not going to spoil her neutrality by venturing an opinion on the way out the door. “Gosh, I think it was ultimately eight days, 10- or 12-hour days, you know, hand-counting write-in ballots,” Kendall recalled.
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