Senate Bill 64 continued to be heard by the House Finance Committee, with Democrats pushing the bill to allow more fraud, and Republicans pushing back.
Hours of phone testimony came from the public on Thursday, most of it against the bill that does things like eliminate the witness signature requirement on absentee ballots, establish “drop boxes” for ballots (Anchorage style), and having the state pay for the postage stamp for those mailing in ballots.
Rep. Nellie Jimmie, a Democrat, played the race card repeatedly and said that people in rural Alaska are disenfranchised, although what she was really saying was that they cannot figure out how to perform their civic duty of voting. Jimmie read her questions and statements that were being provided to her from someone outside the committee — presumably the bill sponsors in the Senate.
The Democrats want, among other things:
- Removing witness signature requirement on absentee ballots
- Ballot drop boxes everywhere
- Special needs ballot changes — no limit on ballot harvesting
- Hiring of rural liaisons to help rural voters, who are somehow seen as too simple-minded to vote
- Permanent absentee voting — once you register to vote absentee, you can get a ballot in perpetuity
- Ballot curing, which may delay results for weeks
- Use of electronic signatures on voter registration documents
- Pre-paid postage on all mail-in ballots
Very little attention is being paid to cleaning up voter rolls.
The bill is being supported by the Alaska Federation of Natives and Outside Democrat groups, as well as Democrats in the House and Senate. AFN says there are too many barriers to voting and that people in rural Alaska need “rural liaisons.”
SB 64 is being fast-tracked through the House because Democrats want to roll out these and other changes before the 2026 election. More details on the bill are found here:
Democrat intentions, with AKGOP assistance, are un-American and pure evil. Congratulations, Alaska, for voting these awful people into office. 😔
Exactly how many people are unable to vote because of those “restrictions?”
If the leftists cannot provide a number/percentage, then they are just pushing for more ways to cheat.
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OK, leftists on MRAK. Here is your chance. Give me some data on this. Can you identify a single individual who was not able to vote, and would be able to after this law passes? One.
……..crickets ……
And… no one is surprised at the total lack of response. Gee… wonder why? Oh… that’s right. No one is denied the ability to vote. Does not happen, and if it has.. there was likely a valid reason for the denial. (invalid registration as an example.)
There’s no easier place in America to vote, than a village.. it’s impossible to sneak into a village without everyone in village knowing you are an outsider… It’s the one place that you can walk in to vote and you get greeted by name, without any poll worker seeing your ID…
What they really want is to keep the State from purging the polls. Rural Alaska has a hugely inflated voter roll.. we’re the place where teachers, health care workers and a multitude of others come to work for two or three years. They’re enrolled instantly by applying for the PFD and that’s the last they’re tracked… But the ballots still go out…
Nellie is a disaster. She hasn’t had an original thought since she got to Juneau.
Says the Shishmaref Monkey Spanker.
Keep voting for her, as she (& Hofmann) push to get rid of the PFD, checks that go to EVERY man, woman & child on the Delta, & give the money to the teachers.
You guys are geniuses out there.
One way to corrct the problems, like in years passed, the AK Natives were able to absentee vote in person at your AFN meetings…Fairbanks or Anchorage..If you COULD restore that timely election , you could solve most of your voting descrepancies..That might mean some timely adjustments to the Alaska Elections HQs.
The Democrats are intent on destroying our society in order to implement a society that enslaves the people that work the hardest. It is past time to throw these people off to the side.
You are right on Robert. Lazy people surround us. They all want a hand out. I prefer to earn my own way.
How long before we have more people voting than the entire voting age population of the state?
We heard these same arguments proffered by the lunatic left and race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of Tawana Brawley fame. Even going to far as to have UN poll watchers in black precincts to document cases of whites preventing blacks from voting. Not a single case was ever found. Now we shift to using the same race-baiting argument for rural Alaskans. I’d like to believe that we’re all smart enough to see this effort to brand Alaska Natives as too stupid to vote without help from people like Nellie Jimmie. I have a difficult time believing that Natives have had no problem legally voting and following the rules since 1959, but now there’s some sudden need to protect them from some imaninary “disenfranchisers.” This is total claptrap. The rest of the AK legislature should be pointing at her and laughing at this folly. Somehow, I suspect that they will instead embrace it. Herbert Spencer once said that, “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” Stop flashing your race card, Jimmie, and do something worthwhile to help your constituents.
And yet, somehow, the villages are all quite capable of apply for and getting government assistance, which is a much more complicated procedure. Huh.
Look democrats are really communists, they want to ruin this country. Plane and simple.
Aren’t rural Alaskans still Alaskans like the rest of us Alaskans? Why always the special needs, exceptions, preferences, and pampering. Follow the law !
Well that’s strange. Time Magazine assured all of us that there was a “Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”.
From the article ‘https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
“Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.”
Even Joe Biden stated that “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
I was assured that our election system was the strongest it has ever been. It seems that Democracy works and the people made their choice to toss the Democrats in the trash. Democrats can’t handle the truth or being without political power, so they continue to try to rig the game to bring themselves back artificially.
What losers
No one in Alaskan villages are”disenfranchised”, that is a word used by democrats to scare and recruit the weak.
They are listening to the wrong people, just cause they are the same race or culture doesn’t mean they tell the truth. People can be evil regardless of their color, religion, race etc….
Look up the Sah Quah federal Court case.
Alaska Natives tried to legally assert tribal sovereignty 25 years after the Civil War to justify why 1 out of every 3 people in SE Alaska were slaves.
Alaska Natives were hardcore Slavers.
Look it up.
Alaska is a No Excuse voting state. Anyone can APPLY TO VOTE absentee by mail, fax, or online delivery. **Applications open January 1st of every year.** You don’t have to wait weeks before election to vote.
No disenfranchising of those that choose to live a rural lifestyle. Looser election laws are not needed. ‘https://www.elections.alaska.gov/voter-information/absentee-and-early-voting/
ALL Alaskans need $1.46 of postage on vote by-mail ballots to return them. This usually means using two “forever” stamps.
Online: Vote Absentee By-Online Delivery – You will need an email address, valid I.D. and access to a computer and a printer. Your email notification of ballot availability and voting instructions will be emailed to you within 24 to 48 hours after receipt of your application. No online voting of ballot, still have to return ballot by mail or FAX.
FAX: Vote Absentee By-Fax – You will need access to a fax machine to receive your voting packet. These materials will be faxed to you within 24 to 48 hours after receipt of your application. Sign your Voter Certificate and Identification sheet in front of your witness and provide at least ONE identifier. Your witness must be 18 years of age or older and must also sign the Voter Certificate and Identification sheet. Witness need not be related to you.
But, but, but….
I am Alaskan Native, I am in support of RealID.
Voter registration and selective service forms are available at every post office. Every village has a post office. This is not an actual issue.
These people still can’t stand on their own. Whining and crying isn’t a good look after all of the privileges they’ve been handed. Looks like the UAF and UAA has not been educating these people to compete or stay abreast of the rest of us Alaskans. They’ve been spoiled with opportunity and hand-outs, but they still can’t stand on their own two feet. What a shame!
I feel completely disenfranchised because of these people. Our elections are completely fraudulent and pretending otherwise is why there is no hope.
One might think Nellie would be happy that White people came along with concepts like voting, literacy, plumbing, the wheel, and Pilot Bread to rescue her people from the stone age but instead we can see that she’s far more content to carry on like a whining butt-hurt mooch hoping to drain the public coffers and demanding extras as if she and her people have been somehow or another short-changed rather than significantly advantaged.
It’s all so tiresome.
Somehow all the natives were able to spell Murkowskis name correctly – so the write-in vote would count against Joe Miller.
Yeah right.
Possibly the biggest voter fraud in a senatorial election ever.
Why bother with elections anymore? Just proclaim the democrats rulers for life. It’s where they’re headed.
No kidding! I mean look at all the democrat wins in the last year! They’re taking over our government!
And, look at all the jurisdictions that tightened up their voter rolls, and increased the requirement for photo ID. Funny how closing the loopholes that allow cheating results in a different outcome.
I’m forming a small coalition of fully engaged subject matter experts to oversee potential voter misconduct in rural Alaska. The group consists of ten Samoans from Whittier, several dead people, four union grievance committee members, two trailers full of illiterate Hmong and three curiously healthy ladies born in the 1800’s. To make sure all is handled ethically the group will be led by the revered Ms. Gabrielle LaDoux.
Rubber stamp signatures will be available for any coalition member at the reasonable cost of six or seven dollars. Dead guys are an extra buck due to the detailed PFD voter records research required.
Make Native requirements as lax as you like. Should be no problem for my crack team.
Loved your comment. If it weren’t so true it would be even funnier.
😀
Rep. Jimmie and others would be very happy with a provision that upon registration and forever thereafter any and all Native votes would be automatically cast for the Democratic nominee. Those voters would no longer be burdened by having to go to the polls or actually fill out a ballot. I am confident that the teachers, fire and police, and all other unions would be in favor of that approach for their members.
The Alaska Supreme Court has already said, essentially, in upholding ranked-choice voting, that the Legislature can do whatever it wants when it comes to election laws.
Get real!!!
They seam to have figured out how to apply for the PFD, food stamps, welfare, etc. Figuring out how to vote will be easy in comparison. Now this rank choice voting is confusing and it should defiantly be repealed to keep the voting simple so everyone can vote comfortably.
These proposed changes don’t even pas the smell test!!! They are just trying to make it so people can cheat. Retaining our voting integrity is a must!!!! Hold your ground on this stuff!!!
Geez… They got the whole thing in the bag… The fixx is in… How much more of an advantage do they need ???
She forgot to include free gasoline for the Bush to get her voters to the polls like they did in 1994 to elect Knowles. Of course, if you can simply manufacture signatures you don’t really have to show up at the polls anymore. Cheers –
No ID, no vote. There I fixed it! In this day and age we need ID to get on a plane, open a bank account, get a driver’s license, buy alcohol, buy a firearm, etc, If there truly is anyone in Alaska today who is so old that they never had to have any ID (very doubtful), then the Division of Elections can investigate and make some other arrangements for that very, very rare mythical voter!
Wow.
Overwhelming common sense!
They always oppose voter ID, they always oppose updating voter rolls. Yet, not one leftist has ever clearly explained how anyone is “disenfranchised” by those things, or any other conventional election practices. The saddest thing here is that Rep. Jimmie, and others like her don’t even realize that they are being used by white leftists.
“The saddest thing here is that Rep. Jimmie, and others like her don’t even realize that they are being used by white leftists.”
Oh no M.John Rep Jimmie volunteered for this and is now paying the piper so to speak. Remember when she was holding out and negotiating with the Republicans, demanding a seat on house finance? The democrats finally gave her what she wanted. I suppose insulting her constituents was part of that deal to sit on that committee.
It seems like Representative Jimmie thinks that her fellow rural residents of this state are illiterate, stupid, uneducated, fools. She sure does not respect her fellow residents.
Every single Democrat believes that any minority is incapable of wiping their own butts.
Whidbey?
Sebastian?
Is there a single Democrat out there who has a comment on this at all?
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