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Land poll opening and closing times
Early on voting
Absentee/mail-in voting
All-mail voting
Voter ID laws

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The policies governing voter participation are enacted and enforced primarily at the state level. These policies, which include voter identification requirements, early on voting provisions, online voter registration systems, and more, dictate the atmospheric condition under which American citizens cast their ballots in their respective states.

This commodity includes the following information about voting policies in Alaska:

  • Voter registration details, including deadlines and eligibility requirements.
  • In-person voting details, including identification requirements, poll times, and early voting provisions.
  • Absentee/mail-in voting deadlines and rules.
  • Details most convicted felons' voting rights.
  • Contact data election agencies.
  • Summaries of noteworthy policy-related events.

See Election assistants in Alaska for more additional information nigh election administration in the state, including voter list maintenance policies, provisional election rules, and post-election auditing practices.

Voter registration

The tabular array below displays voter registration information specific to Alaska's 2022 chief election.

Eligibility and registration details

To annals to vote in Alaska, each applicant must be a denizen of the United States, a resident of Alaska, and at least eighteen years of age or inside ninety days of his or her 18th birthday. An individual convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude may not annals to vote until his or her voting rights have been restored. If registered to vote in another land, applicants must exist willing to cancel that registration in order to vote in Alaska. To vote in Alaska, registered voters must be at least 18 years quondam and take been a resident of the state and election district for at least xxx days.[1]

Prospective voters tin register online, with a paper grade, or in person at a Division of Elections Office or a voter registration agency.[2] The deadline to register is 30 days before an election.[3]

If submitting an awarding form past mail, fax, or electronic mail, the applicant must provide i of the post-obit forms of identification either with his or her application or when voting for the first fourth dimension:[3]

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  • Current and valid photo identification
  • Driver's license
  • Passport
  • State identification carte
  • Nascency certificate
  • Hunting and Angling license.[4]
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In-person voting

The table below displays in-person voting information specific to Alaska's 2022 primary election.

Poll times

See also: Land poll opening and endmost times

In Alaska, all polling places are open from 7:00 a.yard. to 8:00 p.m. Alaska Fourth dimension. An individual who is in line at the time polls close must be immune to vote. Alaska is divided between the Alaska time zone and the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone.[5] [half dozen]

Voter identification

See also: Voter identification laws by state

Alaska requires voters to nowadays non-photo identification while voting.[7] [eight]

The following were accepted forms of identification as of November 2019. Click here for the Alaska Division of Elections' page on accepted ID to ensure you have the almost current data.

  • Voter ID card
  • Commuter's license
  • State ID
  • Military ID
  • Passport
  • Hunting or angling license
  • Other current or valid photo ID
  • Current utility nib, paycheck, authorities bank check, depository financial institution statement, or government-issued certificate[8]

If an election official knows the identity of a voter, the official can waive the identification requirement unless information technology is a outset-fourth dimension voter who registered without providing identification.[7]

Early voting

See also: Early on voting

Alaska permits early voting. Learn more by visiting this website.

Absentee/mail-in voting

See likewise: Absentee/mail-in voting

The tabular array beneath displays absentee voting data specific to Alaska's 2022 main election.

All voters are eligible to vote absentee in Alaska. There are no special eligibility requirements for voting absentee.[9]

If a voter is already registered to vote, an absentee ballot application must be received by elections officials at to the lowest degree 10 days prior to the election. If a voter has not yet registered to vote, or needs to update voter registration data, an absentee ballot awarding must be received at least thirty days before the election.[x]

Convicted felons' voting rights

See also: Voting rights for bedevilled felons

In Alaska, voting rights for individuals convicted of a "felony involving moral turpitude" are restored automatically upon completion of their judgement, including parole or probation.[eleven]

Co-ordinate to state law, "A person convicted of a law-breaking that constitutes a felony involving moral turpitude under country or federal police may non vote in a state, federal, or municipal ballot from the appointment of the conviction through the appointment of the unconditional discharge of the person. Upon the unconditional discharge, the person may register nether Every bit 15.07."[12]

Individuals who have served their judgement to completion must submit proof of their unconditional belch to the Sectionalization of Elections and so that they may annals to vote.[11]

Voting rights for convicted felons vary from state to country. In the majority of states, convicted felons cannot vote while they are incarcerated but may regain the correct to vote upon release from prison house or at some point thereafter.[thirteen] [14]

Ballot agencies

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See also: Country election agencies

Individuals seeking additional information about voting provisions in Alaska can contact the following country and federal agencies.

Alaska Division of Elections

240 Main Street, fourth Floor
PO Box 110017
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Telephone: 907-465-4611
Fax: 907-465-3203
Website: http://www.elections.alaska.gov/

U.South. Election Assistance Commission

1335 Due east West Highway, Suite 4300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Telephone: 866-747-1471

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See also

  • Election administration in Alaska

Elections in Alaska

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External links

  • Official state election website

Footnotes

  1. Alaska Division of Elections, "Who Tin can Annals And Who Can Vote?," accessed November 30, 2019
  2. Alaska Partitioning of Elections, "Register to Vote or Update Your Voter Registration," accessed Nov 30, 2019
  3. 3.0 three.i Alaska Division of Elections, "State of Alaska Voter Registration Application," accessed Nov 30, 2019
  4. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  5. Alaska Sectionalization of Elections, "Polling Place Hours," accessed Oct 4, 2019
  6. 2016 Alaska Statutes, "Title xv, Chapter xv, Section 320," accessed May seven, 2018
  7. 7.0 7.ane Alaska Land Legislature, "Alaska Statutes 2018 Sec. 15.fifteen.225 Voter identification at polls," accessed Nov 30, 2019
  8. 8.0 viii.1 Alaska Division of Elections, "Voting at the Polling Place Election Day," accessed November 20, 2019
  9. Alaska Division of Elections, "Early and In-Person Absentee Voting," accessed September 8, 2019
  10. Alaska Sectionalization of Elections, "By-Mail Ballot Delivery," accessed September 8, 2019
  11. 11.0 xi.ane Alaska Division of Elections, "Restoration of Voting Rights," accessed October 16, 2019
  12. The Alaska Land Legislature, "Alaska Statutes 2018 Sec. 15.05.030," accessed November 24, 2019
  13. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Felon Voting Rights," accessed July 15, 2014
  14. American Civil Liberties Union, "Country Criminal Re-enfranchisement Laws," accessed September xiii, 2019