Republicans in Kodiak, Alaska, were unable to vote in the state’s presidential election Tuesday because no polling places were available after a volunteer canceled the vote, and the local GOP couldn’t “find anyone to step in.”
As of 2021, the city of Kodiak had a population of 5.68 thousand people.
One frustrated Kodiak voter who said he was looking forward to voting for Donald Trump but was unable to vote told The Gateway Pundit, “This is the most important election of our lifetime.”
“Being denied the right to vote because someone had to ‘cancel’ it is unacceptable and has left an entire community of Republican voters disenfranchised,” they continued.
Despite this disenfranchisement of Trump voters, Trump carried Alaska with nearly 90% of the vote and won almost all of the elections on Tuesday!
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In contrast, Nikki Haley needed to use extra voters to hardly eke out a victory in Vermont. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Haley won just one race Tuesday night — hardly — after Democrats admitted they voted for her in Vermont’s open primary.
Democrats supporting Biden in Vermont and likely other states with open primaries are voting for Nikki Haley in the open GOP primary despite having no plans to vote for her in the November general election.
Democrat Paul Somerset said: “I’m voting against Trump. I’m not voting for Haley” to “make Trump look weak.”
Alaska Republican Chairwoman Ann Brown told the Anchorage Daily News, “The polling sites our districts run depend on volunteers to staff them. This is an all-volunteer operation.”
Kodiak voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the 2020 general election. Hopefully they can find poll workers to administer the November election!
Kodiak Daily Mirror reports,
A presidential preference poll was supposed to take place Tuesday in Kodiak, but the person in charge of administering the poll had to cancel and now it’s too late to find a replacement to conduct the poll.
Local Republican Party Chairman Duncan Fields said the plan was to have a polling place at the Harbor Master’s office on W. Marine Way, but that fell through.
“It’s an internal party thing. The person who was going to do it can’t do it, and I couldn’t find anyone to step in,” Fields said.
Like most of the rest of Alaska, Kodiak votes Republican. In the last presidential election, Kodiak districts, including Chiniak, voted for then-incumbent President Trump 70% to 30%. The Mission Road district on Kodiak’s north side voted Trump 75% to 25%.