“It is our position that elected officials should stay involved with the appeal process and not delegate these responsibilities to a committee with non-elected members,” reads the letter to assembly members signed by Mayor Matherly and Mayor Welch.

James “Dim” Burk owes his life to three family friends who came to his rescue Monday night when he flipped his four-wheeler in a swampy area more than 20 miles west of Nenana.

Separate news reports from NPR and the Washington Post indicated that Democratic voters in Florida, Arizona and Pennsylvania had also received the same email.