By THE ALASKA STORY
July 24, 2026 – The Alaska Division of Elections has moved approximately 3,500 registered voters to its inactive list after a comparison with state Division of Motor Vehicles records indicated they may not be US citizens.
Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher told lawmakers during a hearing in Anchorage this week that letters were mailed to the affected voters notifying them of the discrepancy.
“You are a registered voter who indicated you were a citizen of the United States on your initial voter registration application,” the letter states. “We have since received information from the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles that you may not be a citizen.”
The letters do not mean that the recipients have been determined to be non-citizens, nor do they prevent those individuals from voting. Some may be naturalized citizens whose citizenship information was never updated in DMV records.
Beecher said the Elections Division conducts similar comparisons every few months as part of its voter-list maintenance. Previous matches typically identified about 200 registrations for review. The latest comparison produced roughly 3,000 to 3,500 names, an increase that surprised election officials.
“We believe that when we did the match, that a lot of old data was picked up somehow. So we’re still ferreting through that,” Beecher told lawmakers.
She said some people may have received a driver’s license or state identification card when they were not citizens, later became naturalized and then registered to vote without updating the older citizenship designation in their DMV records.
“I believe that people probably don’t realize that all of these governmental entities don’t necessarily talk to each other,” Beecher said.
The DMV said in a memo that the Elections Division made a non-routine request in March for citizenship information associated with approximately 15,200 driver’s license and identification-card applicants. The DMV returned records only when the individual’s most recently confirmed status was something other than “Citizen.”
The Elections Division then mailed notices and moved the matched registrations to inactive status pending a response.
A voter can restore active status by checking a box affirming US citizenship, calling the division or responding by email. Beecher said the division is not requiring recipients to submit a passport, naturalization certificate or other documentary proof.
Those who do not respond before voting may still cast a questioned ballot and attest that they are citizens and otherwise qualified to vote. Election officials would then review the ballot before it is counted.
“It is not disenfranchising the individual from being able to vote, but it’s a measure the division has to take to make sure that we only have citizens voting,” Beecher said.
Rep. Andrew Gray, an Anchorage Democrat, told Beecher that the constituents who contacted his office appeared to be legitimate citizens caught in the data comparison.
The review comes shortly before Alaska’s Aug. 18 primary election.
The central question is not whether 3,500 non-citizens were discovered on Alaska’s voter rolls. Election officials have made no such determination. Rather, the comparison uncovered conflicting information held by two state agencies, with outdated DMV records believed to account for much of the unusually large result.
Those who received one of the letters and are eligible to vote should contact the Division of Elections before the primary to affirm their citizenship and return their registrations to active status.
4 thoughts on “Alaska elections officials flag 3,500 voter registrations in citizenship data check”
Appears to be very Trumpian.
“data picked up somehow”? DOGE investigation please.
Proof of citizenship not required and agiencies not communicating says it all. We never hear mention of cross checking voter registration to PFD applications. I’m not saying those records are honest but provide current information. And how does motor-voter bs play into this recent discovery? The state expects illegal voters to return their voter card that never should have been issued. End it already! All legal citizens have a right to vote, but many don’t and shouldn’t because they’re too lazy to pay attention to what they’re voting on.
Of course, hard-working Alaska elections officials just found 3,500 voter registrations that just popped up in a citizenship data check. Of course they weren’t there last time officials checked. And it’s just coincidence that they popped up after (not before) elections that were won by margins in which 3500 fraudulent votes might have made a difference.
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Looks like Beecher’s panicking, desperate to get out in front of a really bad situation before the DOJ investigation hits and someone needs to be …sacrificed.
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Beecher wasn’t hired to “…believe that people probably don’t realize that all of these governmental entities don’t necessarily talk to each other,” or is it just some bureaucrat’s contemptuous answer to deflect attention from what might be one of the main reasons Alaska’s election system is as corrupted as it seems to be.
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Beecher didn’t say anything about what role ERIC played in this fiasco, why Alaska’s still entangled with ERIC, reconciling voter rolls with Social Security rolls, National Change of Address database, other states’ voter registration lists, physical address locations here and abroad, Google maps, property tax rolls, ICE detainer lists, Medicare and Medicaid rolls, or why technology hasn’t been leveraged to do all this real time.
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But, the good news, according to Beecher, is “A voter can restore active status by checking a box affirming US citizenship”.
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So, all a “voter” who’s not eligible to vote, or who’s voted illegally for years has to do is check a box …or have someone check a box for him? Really, Beecher?
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Maybe they learned something from the Great Alaska LeDoux Vote Experiment, going on now for 6 years and we’re just now seeing it, only because DOJ’s nosing around, likely to make a federal issue out of it.