A mistake prevented residents of a Y-K Delta community from being able to vote in Alaska's primary election . The Alaska Division of Elections said that it didn’t know people were living in Mertarvik until a week before the election. About 130 people have been living there for the past year. On top of that, Newtok never received supplies for its election, resulting in only 17 people there voting in the primary. The trouble with Newtok’s primary started with election officials who backed out of