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Fewer than 100 votes could have made the difference in two races in the Kenai area.

There’s been nearly $1.7 million in total this year in ad buys from the RGA and Families for Alaska’s Future with the Anchorage and Fairbanks network affiliates.

Confused about what’s happening in the Anchorage state House race, where state officials say there’s evidence of voter fraud? Here’s an explainer.

Hear an opponent and supporter of Ballot Measure 1 discuss it with reporters for CoastAlaska and the Juneau Empire.

Alaska elections officials said Monday that they’ve asked criminal investigators to examine “irregularities” with absentee ballots in a hotly contested Anchorage House district — including seven absentees requested in the names of dead people.

Merit-based programs tend to be politically popular. Need-based programs, in contrast, often determine whether low-income students attend college at all.