The Juneau municipal election is still two weeks away, but voters can now cast absentee ballots at two polling places in town.
Alaska Elections
Alaska Primary 2012
Today is primary election day statewide.
Polls open at 7 a.m. and will stay open until 8 o’clock tonight.
Ready for primary day
Tuesday’s primary is Alaska’s first election since House districts have been redrawn.
Kerttula, Munoz stay busy despite no primary, general election challengers
Juneau’s legislative delegation would’ve been excused if they took it easy this summer, instead they stayed busy by reaching out to new communities in their districts, volunteering for other campaigns, and doing constituent service.
Crunch time for hotly contested Ballot Measure 2
If approved, Measure 2 would restore the Alaska Coastal Management Program — a federally funded state agency that operated smoothly, and with little fanfare, for more than 30 years before legislators and the Parnell administration failed to reach a deal to reauthorize it in 2011.
Alaska sues federal government over Voting Rights Act
Yesterday, state attorneys filed a challenge to the federal Voting Rights Act in district court in Washington, DC.