Although the Alaska Division of Elections has finished tallying votes from the Nov. 3 election, Haines Borough residents will never know the final tally for how the community voted in the 2020 state and federal election.
That’s because early and absentee votes are counted differently. While in-person votes on election day are machine-counted immediately in the precinct in which they are cast, absentee and early votes aren’t.
“As absentee ballots arrive at our regional offices,…
