NOTN- City Municipal Clerk Breckan Hendricks presented the official election certification report, at Monday evenings eventful meeting, and City officials are addressing questions voters had about voter number discrepancies.

Juneau has about 28,000 registered voters despite a population of roughly 31,000.

Weldon said the difference comes from using the state voter roll, which can take up to eight years to remove inactive voters.

“So that’s why, when everybody looks at that, when the election results says only 20% of the vote, that’s not a true number, because that’s 20% of the 28,000.” Said Mayor Beth Weldon.

Only 117 ballots were rejected this year, a small number that Weldon said reflects voters’ growing familiarity with the city’s voting process.

CBJ Municipal Clerk Breckan Hendricks says that election integrity is taken seriously by the borough.

“We need to make sure that we’re transparent, that everybody has faith in our system,” Hendricks said. “A lot of people don’t understand it. We have our election rules and procedures online now, on our juneau.org elections page, and we’re trying to get more PSAs out there, trying to make people hopefully understand the process a little better to give them more faith in our system. I know that there’s a lot of hesitancy with by-mail ballots, and we really are following all the rules and regulations to make sure that there’s no gaps.”