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Nonpartisan analysts say Mary Peltola has a fighting chance but that Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has the edge in a state President Trump won handily.
An Alaska group has filed a petition to the Division of Elections seeking to add a single word to a state statute banning noncitizen voting. Existing law states, "A person may vote at any election who is a citizen of the United States.
The case before the court challenges a Mississippi law that allows absentee ballots received after Election Day to count if they are postmarked by Election Day.
Leaders of Alaska's third-largest political party voted to dissolve it last month, raising questions about how the state Division of Elections would handle the registration of its more than 19,000 members.
The primary will be held on Aug. 18. Polls on this page reflect the first round of a ranked-choice ballot.
Gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson, a Republican former mayor of Anchorage, said Wednesday that he has selected Fairbanks financial adviser Joshua Church to be his running mate. Bronson is one of 14 candidates running to be Alaska’s next governor, with current Gov. Mike Dunleavy termed out from seeking reelection.
Former Rep. Mary Peltola’s (D) decision to launch a Senate bid in Alaska is giving Democrats a shot in the arm and raising their hopes about flipping the upper chamber this year. Peltola, who lost Alaska’s at-large House seat in 2024,
The former Alaska congressmember will likely face off against Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and is a recruitment coup for national Democrats.
Candidates can now file to run in Anchorage’s spring election. The filing period opened at 8 a.m. Friday and closes at 5 p.m. on Jan. 30. This year, voters will decide six seats on the Anchorage Assembly and two seats on the school board.
Democrats are hoping the former member of Congress can flip GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan’s seat.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American Samoa, one of numerous cases that have drawn attention to the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory.