Anchorage election officials push back on 'misleading' claims about its mobile voting system
A company that’s been touting Anchorage’s mobile voting use has been told to stop.
The Municipality of Anchorage in March sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Mobile Voting Project and its founder, Bradley Tusk, asserting the company has misrepresented the city’s mobile voting.
As the municipality prepares for its April 7 election, it has had to contend with what its attorneys have called “false and misleading statements about the Municipality’s voting technology that risk undermining voter confidence in the integrity of our elections,” according to the cease-and-desist letter dated March 11.
The New York Times on Nov. 13 published an article titled “Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out,” referring to Anchorage’s use of mobile voting as an “experiment with internet voting in local elections, betting that its ease and security will win over voters even in an era of election conspiracy theories.” The article prominently featured venture capitalist Tusk and the Mobile Voting Project.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2026/04/03/anchorage-election-officials-push-back-on-misleading-claims-about-its-mobile-voting-system/