{"id":64882,"date":"2020-11-02T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/election-day-is-underway\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T08:24:20","slug":"election-day-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/election-day-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Alaska releases unofficial results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Alaska Division of Elections released its first round of unofficial election results shortly after 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The results represent just under 30% —128 of 441 — of the state’s precincts and fewer votes — 81,656 — than the number of absentee ballots — somewhere in excess of 120,000 — that will be counted in about a week. It”s not quite 14% of Alaska’s 595,647 registered voters.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The unofficial results show President Donald Trump taking just under 58% of the vote and Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden with about 38% of the vote. The results show a similar divide in the races for the U.S. House and Senate with Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Republican Rep. Don Young each with more than 58% of the vote. The results show Alyse Galvin, an independent and the Democrat nominee who is running against Young for a second time, had 41.4% of the votes. Al Gross, also a Democrat-backed independent, had just over 37% of the vote in the early, unofficial results.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Voter Holly Gundelfinger talks to an election official in the Mendenhall Valley Public Library on Nov. 3, 2020. (Ben Hohenstatt \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

Alaska Division of Elections has repeatedly that a surge in by-mail voting may mean a wait for clear-cut results. Nearly 120,000 by-mail ballots were issued as of Tuesday, according to state data<\/a>, and nearly 90,000 such ballots had been returned.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Those ballots account for nearly half of the 161,217 ballots returned to the state elections division as of Tuesday. Early in-person voting accounted just over 50,000 votes. Absentee in-person voting accounted for nearly 15,000 returned ballots. No other type of early or absentee voting accounted for more than 10,000 votes, according to state data.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t