LETTER TO EDITOR
Stanley Smith of Kwiguk has
written the editor a letter in
answer to that published by the
Election Commissioner concern
ing the voting in the lower Yukon.
We quote from the letter as
follows:
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Mrs. Carrie McLain, Election
Supervisor of the N.W. District,
has nicely solved the problem as
1 suggested. She has sent out a
form letter to be sent in by those
who wish to vote absentee with
the address on it. I would further
suggest that similar form letters
be sent to all the outlying vil
lages for November is mink hunt
ing season and many will want to
vote absentee.
It is obvious that more people
will be able to vote in the next
election, so a good purpose has
been served. Congratulations Mr.
Preston for having election super
visors who keep pencils with
erasers.
I wrote that eight villages re
ceived no word on how to vote
absentee—this is a fact. I esti
mate that over 300 people were
unable to vote. This is a con
servative estimate for the lower
Yukon only.
Let’s keep the record straight.
I stated that no instructions were
received on absentee balloting. A
lack of understanding of the con
ditions of the coast is the reason,
and I certainly have never ac
cused anyone of preventing peo
ple from voting. I do not feel that
the Postmasters should handle
the voting, only that, since they
have handled it in the past, it
was obvious that they should have
been contacted to communicate
the change, or that some respon
sible person should have been
contacted to explain the new pro
cess.
In answer to Mr. Charles Pres
ton’s letter of Sept. 12, I prefer
to write with a pencil with an
eraser in order that mistakes may
be corrected. All except mis
marked ballot were counted in
cluding the sample ballots which
were used because there were not
enough regular ballots. That peo
ple were turned away because
they ran out of sample ballots and
didn’t know they could use any
type of paper, is a fact.
This is the only election where
requests for absentee ballot-cards
were sent out by interest groups.
Of course the natives of the coast
are not average so they received
none. A careful check with the
native councils of the villages that
didn’t vote is advised.
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Mr. Smith also enclosed a copy
of an affidavit, which is repro
duced here:
Kwiguk, Sept. 21, 1960
To whom it may concern:
On August 9th, I asked Felix
Moses to take me to Alakanuk,
because we had no gas. I wanted
to vote.
Then we went down to Alaka
nuk and we went up to the Post
office. Jacob went in and he voted
but they had no more ballots
so me, Felix Moses and Augus
tine, Agnes couldn’t vote. So we
went home by kicker and we felt
bad. Some others came too but
they didn’t vote too.
— Emma Peterson
Signed before me this date,
Sept. 21, 1960.
Lucille Paquette, P.M.
(Seal) Postmaster
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