Division of Elections to begin Implementation of Top Four Primary and Ranked Choice Voting March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 (JUNEAU, AK) – The Better Elections Initiative goes into effect on February 28. Voters will cast their votes in a new nonpartisan Top Four Primary on August 16, 2022, and a Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) process for the November 8, 2022 General Election. Voters will soon begin seeing changes implemented by the […]
Division of Elections Statement on Supreme Court Decision October 12, 2020The Alaska Supreme Court today agreed with the lower court that in light of the pandemic, for the 2020 general election only, voters do not need to get their absentee ballots witnessed.
Recall Grounds Found Factually and Legally Insufficient Resulting in Denial of Certification November 4, 2019There were sufficient qualifying signatures and the technical requirements of the recall statutes were met, but the Department of Law concluded the statement of grounds for recall was both factually and legally insufficient to meet the statutory grounds for recall.