OPINION: SB 64 doesn’t save Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting – it exposes it
Senate Bill 64 is not a rescue plan for ranked-choice voting, nor does it give anyone extra talking points. It is a cleanup bill for Alaska’s election system, maybe the best we have ever seen.
Supreme Court case could quash Alaska policy of letting ballots arrive weeks after Election Day
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on March 23 in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case that could upend election rules in more than a dozen states, including in Alaska, by determining whether federal law requires ballots to be
FLIP-FLOP: Murkowski decries move to bar men from female sports, then votes for it anyway
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is walking a fine, often contradictory line as she continues to air her grievances with a GOP-backed effort to strengthen election integrity and protect women’s sports from gender-confused
Alaskans to vote on measure to explicitly ban all non-citizen voting
The initiative seeks to amend Alaska’s voter‑qualification statute (AS 15.05.010) to explicitly state that only individuals who meet the requirements listed in the statute - including being a United States citizen - may vote in any Alaska
OPINION: When politicians claim to support voter ID, but oppose actual reforms
Sen. Murkowski recently tried to defend her opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. Like many politicians who claim to support voter ID and election integrity, she opposes the very reforms that would meaningfully strengthen
ALERT: Anchorage voters must register by March 8 to vote in April
Since Anchorage elections are mail-in affairs, ballots will be sent to voters’ homes, which means updated addresses are
OPINION: Senate Majority Leader is enabling Murkowski to block voter ID act
The only conclusion a reasonable person can draw is that Sen. Murkowski opposes the SAVE Act because she benefits from the fraudulent votes that it would
OPINION: Sen. Murkowski vows to oppose free & fair elections bill
The House of Representatives just passed a major piece of election integrity legislation called the SAVE Act, which requires a picture ID to vote in federal elections. This idea is wildly popular with Americans from both parties and would seem like an
OPINION: Ranked-choice vote isn’t dishonest – but it redefines ‘consent’
RCV does not force candidates to lie. It does something subtler and, in many ways, more consequential: it penalizes clarity. Candidates who draw sharp distinctions risk early elimination, while candidates who blur differences survive
Proposed bill makes it harder to qualify as a resident Alaska hunter than to vote
If passed, the proposal would make it more difficult to qualify as a resident hunter than to qualify as an Alaskan
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