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Election reforms are on the agenda for Alaska lawmakers this year
Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a bill through the House, and the Senate majority is expected to introduce its own election reforms later this week ...
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Tribal public schools, election reform, snowfall guessing contests among Legislature’s first bills
Nearly 130 bills and resolutions were formally introduced on the first real work day this session for the Alaska State ...
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Alaska lawmakers gavel in, talk priorities on smooth first day of session
The first day always involves more pomp and circumstance than legislating, and this time was no exception — but senators ...
Trump targets Alaska’s oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight
Alaska's political leaders are cheering an expansive executive order signed by President Donald Trump that aims to boost oil ...
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Alaska election officials rejected 1,303 ballots this November. Here’s why.
The 1.6% rejection rate in the November 2024 election is significantly lower than in the 2022 special primary, when high ...
Here are the Alaska legislative priorities to watch this session
The Alaska House and Senate on Tuesday convened the two-year session with bipartisan majorities governing both legislative chambers. Leaders of the Democrat-dominated House and Senate majorities said ...
Election reform, transgender athlete ban, age verification for apps: More bills unveiled before Alaska legislative session
Alaska legislators on Friday unveiled a second batch of measures that were prefiled ahead of Tuesday's start to the legislative session. Eighty-one measures were announced last week. A further 20 ...
Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill
U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry ...
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Alaska officials rejected 1,303 absentee ballots in November election, many for lacking a witness signature
Alaska election workers rejected 1,303 absentee ballots in the November election, in many cases because they were missing a witness signature, according to data obtained by the Anchorage Daily News.
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Alaska President Results 2024
The conservative state voted to back Trump in the last two elections. In 2020, Trump won Alaska with 53% of the vote to Joe Biden’s 43%. In 2016, Trump won Alaska with 53% to Hillary Clinton’s ...
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A new frontier? How Alaska’s elections could show what’s to come for Nevada’s
Alaska’s birth of ranked-choice voting Elections attorney Scott Kendall, who wrote the 2020 ballot measure to implement Alaska’s new voting system, said ranked-choice voting never held a big ...
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Alaska legislators, citing some citizen complaints, investigate management of 2024 election
The director of the Alaska Division of Election answered some pointed questions at a legislative hearing last week. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s elections chief defended her division ...