OPINION: Not everyone should be allowed to vote
“Universal suffrage” used to mean including women, minorities and the poor being granted the right to vote, but now it is understood to mean something else - and something quite
OPINION: Conservative Alaskan voters face extra hurdles
Lieutenant Governor Dahlstrom announced last Friday that none of the 11,928 votes Treg Taylor received for governor will count this year. So, if you voted for any other candidate, your vote counted, but if you were one of the conservatives who voted for
Reporter reflects on recent undercover Alaska operation exposing voter integrity problems
Nationally renowned investigative reporter James O’Keefe has offered some reflections on his recent undercover mission to Alaska in which he exposed election vulnerabilities during the Aug. 18
Court orders one change to Alaska ballot measure aimed at ending ranked-choice voting
The high court’s only change was to order the state to include wording explaining that a successful repeal of ranked-choice voting would result in candidates for governor and lieutenant governor running separately, as they have in the
OPINION: Before dumping ranked-choice, Alaska conservatives must use it one last time
You can dislike Alaska's ranked-choice voting system and still know how to use it. If conservatives don't, they will lose the governor's
Borough info on Fairbanks hand-count ballot prop is biased, assemblyman says
Fairbanks Assemblyman Brett Rotermund warns that voters are getting a biased and negative perspective on the merits of an initiative that aims to require hand-counting of all borough ballots, while prohibiting electronic voting machines.
How did gubernatorial candidates answer Alaska Watchman survey questions?
This spring, the Alaska Watchman sent survey questions to candidates vying to be the state’s next governor. Today, we republish these answers to help Aug. 18 primary voters decide between the many candidates running for
OPINION: Alaska’s ranked-choice vote created Decoy Daniel. Full stop.
In decades of closed primaries, Alaska never saw a serious decoy candidate for a major statewide office. The structure blocked it. The top-four open primary associated with ranked-choice removed that
In a nearly pointless AK primary, low turnout, RCV & unlimited donations may help Dems
If Democrat candidates exceed expectations in Alaska's primary election due to rich friends, RCV and low turnout, it proves how broken our election system really
Juneau tax notice begs the question about how reliable USPS is for mail-in elections
Juneau’s official tax bill notice has inadvertently raised questions about the city’s heavy reliance on the U.S. Postal Service to facilitate its mail-in-only ballot
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