Dems sue as polling site failures hit thousands of voters in critical race: report

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Democrats filed a lawsuit Friday as early voting failures affected thousands of Alaskans in villages “ key to Democratic hopes ” just days out from the midterms, The New York Times reported Saturday. Filed in Anchorage Superior Court, the lawsuit alleges that 18 early voting sites in rural Alaska had either “failed to open, opened late, maintained irregular hours or lacked ballots altogether,” the Times reported. The early voting period in Alaska began on Oct. 19 and is scheduled to end on Monday, Nov. 2. As noted by the Times, elections in the Last Frontier state are “routinely decided by a…

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