JokersUpdates.com: Current Affairs - Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting

voting fraud panic.

The state troopers came first for Tupe Smith.

They arrived in a pair on November 30, 2023, traveling a stretch of highway that starts in Anchorage but quickly becomes quite rural. They drove past a ski resort and a small shopping center, then turned off through a forested valley with no cell service, until they reached the entrance to the longest highway tunnel in the country: the portal to Whittier, Alaska.

The one-lane tunnel, which carves 2.5 dark, musty, bumpy miles through a glacial mountain, opens for two 15-minute periods every hour, once for each direction; the troopers caught the 10 a.m. window heading east. On the other side, Whittier’s punishing microclimate—more snow than Aspen, Amazon-level rainfall, and almost nonstop wind—greeted them with cold, wet bluster.

This small port town was built by the military during World War II, as the U.S. warred with Japan. In the 1950s during the Cold War, the military constructed two gigantic housing structures, one of which is still in use: The 14-story complex, set back a few blocks from the waterfront, houses nearly all of Whittier’s roughly 300 residents. Inside this tower, people shop for groceries, get mail, attend church, exercise, and gather in community. The officers parked their Ford Explorer outside the complex.

Smith is part of a large, tight-knit community of people who’ve moved to Whittier from American Samoa, a U.S. territory some 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. She’s called this complex home for years, so when the troopers knocked at the door of her third-floor unit, she didn’t bother to look through the peephole before opening it; in Whittier, there are no strangers.

https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-alaska/