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Here's what to know about American Samoans in Alaska who are being prosecuted after trying to vote
They were born on U.S. soil, are entitled to U.S. passports and allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but 11 people in a ...
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Alaska Election Results 2024: Live updates, map for every state race
Alaska U.S. House Election Results for all districts, including county-by-county maps and breakdowns: For more elections results from local Alaska election races, read USA TODAY's full Alaska ...
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Alaska Election Results
Elections in Alaska use ranked choice voting, so if no candidate receives a majority of the votes in the initial vote count, the winner will be decided by additional rounds of tabulation until a ...
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A US territory's colonial history emerges in state disputes over voting and citizenship
A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright citizenship and voting by people who are not U.S. citizens, issues that have ...
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Most of Alaska’s candidates are already thinking about November. Here’s why the primary election still matters.
With days remaining until Alaska’s primary election concludes on Tuesday, candidates and voters are still figuring out the significance of a primary that in most races will not eliminate a ...
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Election Day in Alaska: When to expect results, and what to look for
The closest races likely will include the state’s U.S. House election and the ballot measure seeking to repeal ranked choice voting. The lone exception to Alaska’s polling station schedule is ...
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Today is Alaska's first ranked choice election. Here's what to know.
Voting polling place (Photo by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media) It’s Election Day in Alaska, and it may be the most confusing election in state history. Alaskans are voting Tuesday, Aug. 16 ...
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It's Election Day in Alaska. Here's what to know.
Juneau Alaska, Nov. 8, 2022. (Paige Sparks/KTOO) Election Day is today: Tuesday, Nov. 8. It’s Alaska’s first general election under the state’s new ranked choice voting system. Already ...
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He's in a New York prison. Yet courts let him stay on a U.S. House ballot — in Alaska
KETCHIKAN, Alaska — A fringe candidate who's never been to Alaska and is currently in federal prison in New York is set to appear on the general election ballot for Alaska’s lone U.S. House ...
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Alaska’s Independents Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Country
Republicans were rattled earlier this year when Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska's vacant congressional seat. | Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICO This is the read of the ...
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Alaska’s primary election turnout is on pace to be third-lowest in 50 years
Turnout in this year’s state primary election is on pace to be the third lowest in the past 50 years, according to preliminary figures published Tuesday by the Alaska Division of Elections.
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Alaska voters enacted ranked choice voting. Why do some people want to repeal that?
Proponents of Alaska’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system said it makes elections more competitive and improved representation because candidates across the political spectrum have ...