An effort to decide whether to change the Municipality of Anchorage’s official seal has been marred by technical manipulation and misinformation, city leaders say.
Anchorage officials put out a web survey late last month for members of the public to weigh in on five proposed seals, including one that has no changes. But Anchorage IT staff say over 2,100 responses were logged in under an hour earlier this week, leading officials to believe they were fraudulent. The responses used variations of the exact same language and were in support of not changing the seal at all.
“So it’s possible, not plausible, but it is possible that these are possibly to be legitimate survey responses?” Eagle River Assembly member Jared Goecker asked Anchorage Chief Information Security Officer Jon Rendulic…