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Click to hear a recording of the Interior Alaska
Senate and House Candidate Forum.

• Start at the beginning to hear Round 1 featuring House candidates Jeremiah Youmans,Kevin McKinley, Adam Wool, Mike Cronk,
  Elijah Verhagen, Vernon Carlson, and Julia Hnilicka.
   
• Start about one hour in to hear Round 2 introducing Senate candidates Evan Eads, Robert Myers and Marna Sandford and House candidates Bart LeBon, Christopher Quist, Mike Prax, Keith Kurber, and Grier Hopkins.

Ballot Measure 2 - Alaskans for Better Elections

The goals are to address transparency in campaign financing (Dark Money), an Open Primary and Ranked Choice Voting. To learn more about Ballot Measure 2 here are some resources:

Testimony to State of Alaska House Affairs Committee by proponents and opponents on June 30, 2020. Pros and cons are offered by each side as well as rebuttals.

October 9, 2020 Sightline article, "A Guide to Alaska's Ballot Measure on Election Reforms"

Webinar on Dark Money offered by Alaskans for Better Elections.The issue is the nondisclosure of large sums of money, money that continues to flow into Alaskan elections in increasing amounts, a problem for all states. It requires careful listening but it is worth the time  Paula De Lalarro is a panelist from Anchorage with much experience in APOC and talks about disclosure or nondisclosure of campaign finance funding in Alaska. Catie Kelley started working at the FEC right after Citizens United and saw a gridlocked FEC that did not provide enough guidance to the crafting of laws that demanded disclosure of the influx of money that followed Citizens United.  Jeff Clements is a panelist who wishes to advocate for an Amendment to undo Citizens United and is encouraged to see states attempting to improve finance transparency.  Jay Costa is from a group called Voters' Right to Know whose purpose is to make campaign financing transparent so that every dollar is accounted for down to the original donor rather than a shell company or patriotic-sounding organization name. Jim Rubens from N. Hampshire, a former senator, tells about an election in N.H. in which 95% of the 132 million spent came from out of state.  Jackson Blackwell moderates the discussion for ABE.

Yes on 2 for Better Elections - website of campaign to get Ballot 2 passed. There is a pretty good little video on now ranked choice voting works.

If these issues are important to you, write to your Senators, talk to your friends, write letters to the editors, post Facebook posts, and Tweet your support!

For the ERA (S.J.Res 6) and VRAA (S. 561), please write to Senator Lisa Murkowski and thank her for her support of these bills.  And, specifically — write, call or email  Senator Dan Sullivan to encourage him to support both of these. 

To see a comprehensive list of LWVTV activites over the past seveal years, click  the Past Activities tab (upper left menu)

• Round 1 featured House candidates Jeremiah Youmans,
  Kevin McKinley, Adam Wool, Mike Cronk, Elijah Verhagen,
  Vernon Carlson, and Julia Hnilicka.
   
• Round 2 introduced Senate candidates Evan Eads, Robert Myers and Marna Sandford and House candidates Bart LeBon, Christopher Quist, Mike Prax, Keith Kurber, and Grier Hopkins.

​League members Shari and Tom George, Diane Lyon, Janna Miller, Martha Raynolds, Rich Seifert and Valerie Therrien asked questions, timed candidate responses and kept the forum moving. All the questions were submitted by League members and FNA.

Thanks to KUAC FM 89.9 for broadcasting the forum, the FNSB Clerk's Office for setting up the Assembly Chamber and Get Out the Native Vote for providing voting encouragement.

League Members Worked
Early Voting and Election Day Polling Sites
for the Municipal Election

League members assisted both with Early Voting at Shoppers Forum and at Election Day polling locations. Early voting ran from Sept. 21 - Oct. 1. Election Day was October 6, 2020.

Voter turnout was 22.4% for the FNSB, 17.7% for the City of Fairbanks and 15.4% for the City of North Pole. Sad turnout for our community and our democracy.

Link to Election results at the FNSB Clerk's Office.

League Members Assisted with the Primary Election on August 18, 2020

LWVTV was on station to assist the Division of Elections with Special Needs voting during the Primary.

Gunnar Knapp's Alaska Fiscal Facts and Choices (from 2018)

Fairbanks Legislative Information Office

Legislative Publications List

Legislative Finance Division