Carol Beecher, appointed by Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom to manage Alaska’s elections, said that she would stop donating to candidates but would not change her Republican voter registration.
Carol Beecher, the newly appointed director of Alaska's Division of Elections, spoke to reporters Wednesday about staying impartial while executing the state's election laws. A recent donor to GOP candidates, Beecher said she would not change her Republican voter registration.
Beecher said that she would stop donating to candidates, but that she would not change her GOP voter registration.When asked whether she agreed with Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, Beecher said she would not “state an opinion on any of that.” “I believe that President Biden was elected and that it was in accordance to the laws and requirements of the various states,” she said. “I know there’s been a lot of controversy about that issue. But I don’t know enough to know what happened in those various states. I know there’s still a lot of people who are concerned about that.
Longtime legislators and legislative aides said that the election director’s position is highly technical and complex, and questioned how Beecher would handle the new role. When pressed Thursday on how she would remedy some of the division’s most pressing challenges — such as some rural voters not having their ballots counted from November’s election — she said she would need to do more research.
Dahlstrom said she had mutual friends with Beecher and that they had worked in the same building for the past several years. She felt confident Beecher would do “an excellent job” while maintaining her neutrality, and that her former supervisors spoke highly of her.
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