Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink said evidence points to traveling being risky.
Andrew Kitchenman
State Government Reporter, Alaska Public Media & KTOO
State government plays an outsized role in the life of Alaskans. As the state continues to go through the painful process of deciding what its priorities are, I bring Alaskans to the scene of a government in transition.
Ruling: If Alaskans fail to sign the envelopes of their absentee ballots this year, they won’t have a chance to fix it
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Guidi rejected a request that the state quickly notify voters if they fail to sign or provide identifying information on their mailed ballots.
Alaska’s latest election lawsuit would give absentee voters a chance to fix mail-in ballot errors
While voters are able to fix ballot mistakes in some municipal elections, Alaska law doesn’t provide for a similar process.
Opponents of oil tax measure receive more campaign contributions than all other state-level campaigns combined
In races for the Alaska Legislature, the five candidates who raised the most between early August and early October were all Democrats or independents running for seats held by Republicans.
Alaska Supreme Court rules that absentee voters won’t need witnesses
The Arctic Village Council and others sued to block the requirement this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Superior Court Judge Dani Crosby ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, but the order was put on hold after the Division of Elections appealed.
State elections watchdog orders ‘No on 2’ campaign to fix or take down ads
Ads opposing Measure 2 identified John Sturgeon, Mark Begich and Sean Parnell as two of the ‘No on 2’ campaign’s top contributors. But once the ads aired, the Alaska Republican Party and other groups had contributed more than 100 times as much.