Fenumiai says she has every confidence that Alaska will continue to conduct elections with the highest level of integrity and transparency. And she advises any skeptics to sign up to be poll workers.
She is retiring just as Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom takes up her new duties, which include overseeing elections. But Fenumiai said no one asked her to resign and that the arrival of the new lieutenant governor is coincidental.Nationally, doubt in the integrity of elections has threatened the fundamentals of democracy. But in Alaska, Fenumiai just kept going, a steady hand on the rudder, no matter what the wild 2022 election year threw at her.
Her mantra was just to follow the rules, as set out in election law. Even if the law is new, even if a special election pops up unexpectedly, even if they have extra obligations to educate the public about the new methods of voting. “I think it’s really important that whoever’s in this job has that neutrality, no partisanship,” she said. “Because in this job, there’s no room for that at all.”
In a big warehouse in Juneau, Fenumiai personally reviewed thousands of challenged ballots. Hour after hour. Day after day. Kendall said he never saw her lose her composure. If she had a personal opinion about the merits of any ballot challenge, she didn’t let on.
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