The top districts for voting in Alaska in the Aug. 20 primary were:
House District 9, South Anchorage: 4,176 / 16,361, 25.52%
House District 35, Fairbanks: 3,762 / 15,791, 23.82%
House District 6, South Kenai: 4,296 / 18,310, 23.46%
House District 4, North Juneau: 3,621 / 16,947, 21.37%
House District 3, Downtown Juneau: 3,255 / 15,281, 21.30%
House District 16, Anchorage: 3,356 / 15,935, 21.06%
House District 34, Fairbanks: 3,263 / 16,099, 20.27%
House District 8, Kenai: 3,501 / 17,375, 20.15%
House District 36, Interior: 3,254 / 16,234, 20.04%
House District 11, Anchorage: 2,988 / 15,350, 19.47%
The lowest turnout of those reporting all their precincts was:
House District 18, Government Hill and military area of Anchorage: 603 / 12,183, 4.95%
The state total was 92,690 of 605,482 (15.31%), however, three rural districts have not reported in most of their ballots, and so the voter turnout may inch higher.
The Division of Elections, under the direction of Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, failed to get three village voting centers open — all in very rural areas. They were Kaktovik, Wales, and Anaktuvuk Pass, where a few hundred votes for Rep. Mary Peltola may have been sacrificed. It remains unclear if those votes would have changed a state House outcome.
ABSOLUTELY(!) … Pathetic turnout of voters.
A complete dereliction of fiduciary duty.
There is ‘NO’ excuse for this aberration.
The division of elections under the “Dereliction” of Lt.Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom failed to get three village voting centers open for the election.
However she was very successful in helping to secure the top Democrat House seat to the radical left leaning Mary Peltola who has vowed to join the “civil war” Jamie Raskin has promised if Kamala(Lala) loses to Mr. Trump.
Dahlstrom was also successful in securing a nice pair of stylish shoes at Nordstrom Rack on election day.
The new shoes will come in handy for Peltola’s election party in DC where the Lt. Governor of Alaska has been promised a very lucrative position in Mary’s office….Paul Harvey signing off.
Voting is what got us into this mess.
When we vote, we are giving our authority to people who serve special interests and not the will of the people. Voting gives them your consent to rule over you.
We are all children of this world and no body holds power over nature.
This current system needs to collapse so a more nature aligned system can take its place.
Amen to that!!
If you do not Vote take your opinions elsewhere. You may think not voting is expressing your opinion but you are the problem when you are not engaged in the process and have nowhere to stand when it does not go your way. By voting we have the right to complain and those who do not represent U you do not so you might as well go sit in the corner and be quiet. I also use real names not hide behind a facade.
Steven. You do not dictate when and where I can have an opinion. You feel you have authority over me and what I do with my thoughts and speech? Think again.
I am not the problem. I am not the one continually feeding the beast that consumes all. You are feeding the beast with your pathetic votes that do nothing but give someone else permission to rule over you.
But go ahead, blame me if you wish. If you are unable to take responsibility for how your life is and have to blame someone else, then fine, I’ll be your whipping boy.
“Feel free to choose whether or not to vote, as it’s your right. However, sharing your views on elected officials and their policies is not obligatory. By opting out of the process, you become part of the issue at hand. Change cannot be initiated if one does not participate.”
Whoa! That’s exactly what I’d say if I was trying to demonstrate ignorance in the face of reality…BTW, your opinion carries 0 credibility if you don’t vote so maybe just stick to giving advice on how someone should decorate their more nature aligned cave..just a thought..🥴
I see a political theatre that has done a fantastic job of dividing it’s people against each other. I am asked to vote for one person or another who do not hold my values at all. If I vote left, I am voting for those who hate freedom and hate life and desire to kill babies in mass. If I vote right, I am voting for those who seek to keep the world stuck in the old ways. Both sides want to continue to write laws that further restrict our existence one way or another.
I vote for absolute freedom under Common Law. We do as we wish as long as no harm comes to another. There are no candidates that support my values. There are only candidates that support whatever narrative that is being fed to the sheep at any given moment.
To give them my vote is to give them my consent for a false reality that does not align with my vision for humanity.
You continue to vote yet your government only becomes more and more chaotic. Your streets continue to fill up with litter and other human related filth. Your potholes only receive temporary patches. Your affordable health care is not affordable at all.
You speak of ignorance in the face of reality. Your are ignorant to the power of your own sovereignty. You trust a system that does not have your best interest at heart. You give politicians power to make changes when you yourself have the power to make the changes needed in your lives. You are removed from nature and so helplessly dependent on the system that you continue to fight for it’s existence. All we ever needed to thrive is already available to us through nature. It is the lower consciousness system dwellers that have made things so overly complicated and who can’t seem to survive under their own agency.
The truth is, you don’t have the ability to find peace in your own stillness, you think that you must participate in the system in order to have worth and value. You exist within the illusion of choice.
You can hate me if you wish, for thinking outside of your mental imprisonment, but you will hear my words again when your precious system comes crumbling down under it’s own corruptions. You have been warned on this day to be prepared, for it is coming. If you are not prepared for these great changes, the transition you experience will be quite unpleasant.
You do you.
Ignatius Fistin Dantilus-
Excellent response… there are many of us that agree with you. This ship is sinking and if they wish to not see it, oh well. The barn has already begun to burn and once it’s rubble and ash we can then rebuild it for our future.
A Day In The Life.
Thank you.
“Nature aligned system”?? Huh??
Explain what would this system of yours look like?
I am thinking free for all, Lord of the Flies style…
So do you believe that anarchy (as in no rules and survival of the fittest) should be the law of the land?
I think you are a communist/democrat plant trying manipulate folks in order to keep as many people from the polls as possible
We see through your ploy!
You see your entire logic is flawed, as people NOT voting is what got us into this mess. Chris Constant got elected with 3,803 votes out of 35,664 possible. You think he would still sit on the assembly if all 35664 voters in his district had voted?
A taxpayer.
We all have the ability to self govern.
Nature aligned would mean we take responsibility as all individuals for our lives, environment and well being of community, rather than expecting the work to be done for us just because we voted.
We each would be responsible for our own personal garden. Our homes would be upgrade to be energy efficient and have individual heating and power generation through a combination of renewable energy tech to include solar, hydrogen and geo thermal energy extraction. We would have personal relationships with our community and have communication systems in place to alert of dangers and crimes.
Individual power generation would make less strain for the the power grid and lower costs all around because there would be less big oil and coal transportation.
We would have less strains police force if we had a system of policing our own community. Take back our power to maintain our own society instead of outsourcing it to unknowns.
Having everyone knowing how to garden gives people purpose and the skills to survive if emergency ever arrises. We can eliminate food shortages if every property had its own garden to depend on. Over abundance could easily be distributed to the lessers of society who fail to learn and adapt.
Have systems in place for each region that comforts and educates the lessers so they can become more self reliant. The homeless are currently occupying a lot of space and they all have brains that can be taught simple agriculture.
Decentralized government. Current government allows for cronyism. We allow massive amounts of power to fall in a few people’s hand. They make promises to our face but do things differently behind closed doors.
We would restrict government to only ne responsible for the tasks that the communities give them and not allow them to have the capacity to corrupt. Too large of government with corporate media backing leads to propaganda and the masses being led through fear to push policy that limits freedom and continues to push the expansion of itself. This has to stop.
You can vote if you want to, but you should realize that you contribute to a beast system that has run away from its intended purpose.
Think of it this way, in the current system you are given the illusion of choice because the players can only be players when funded by a lot of money. The peoples voice be damned. What we have are influence peddlers masquerading as public servants. Until that is cleaned up or destroyed, you the populace will forever be pitted against each other through policy.
Either keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different results (voting) or stop playing the losers game and take your power back through direct action. Get out and observe your neighborhood. Clean up garbage off the streets. Fill potholes. Offer to mow your neighbors lawn.
Our current society is motivated by money or some kind of exchange in order to do anything for each other. Our society seems powerless without being funded. Taking our power back means we are able to have agency over our lives without the motivation of money.
You say you don’t have time to do this? Too busy and tired after work?
Get rid of your TV. Stop watching sports. Stop poisoning yourself with liquor.
This new world requires active participation in your life and the removal of reliance of an outside entity. Yes personal responsibility is a daunting thing to the unpracticed, but is far more liberating.
“We each would be responsible for our own personal garden. Our homes would be upgrade to be energy efficient and have individual heating and power generation through a combination of renewable energy tech to include solar, hydrogen and geo thermal energy extraction.”
How would you do that? Were would you get the funds and the infrastructure building all these units? Be specific!
What about the elderly or infirm, who can not tend their own garden?
“We would have personal relationships with our community and have communication systems in place to alert of dangers and crimes.”
Ironically we already have all that and most people I know are self-reliant individuals taking care of their own issues.
Why would you have to alert people to crimes if everyone just does everything for themselves? Who will determine what is a crime and how will you punish the perpetrator? Will the mob just chase down the guy they do not like?
Sadly you do not realize that this country was built on personal responsibility, so what you really want is a return to conservative values. Yet the only way to achieve that isn’t checking out of society, but actively working on solutions and the first step is to vote for the people, who share that vision and return government to the limited purposes of the country’s founding.
I say this separately as it is the most important.
Establish a direct connection to the Creator and omit the middle man.
Find divine guidance within to help you with your purpose and well being.
Refind respect for nature and our environment. Listen to the wind blow and the leaves flutter. Watch the birds and squirrels. Respect the moose and bears.
Share love in all we do.
Wake up! You are all children of the divine who have forgotten your true origin. You dwell within a complex dream and until you wake up, the cycles will continue to repeat until endlessly.
Ultimately we would all become leaders so we don’t have to keep trying to elect them and hoping for the best. We take our power back to make our home great again!
Failure to participate gives everyone power over you.
But if you’re looking for a way to be the ultimate victim, go for it.
I am no victim. Life is good. My life does not depend in the system like yours does.
I participate in community hands on. My vote does not pick up garbage off the street, I do.
My vote does not grow my garden and nourish my body, I do.
My vote does not talk to my neighbors and work my job. I do.
The system has become a runaway train. You are given the illusion of choice but the process stays the same. You elect a representative who fails on their promises. Legislation is passed in the darkness of night without voter approval. We trust our representation to vote in accordance to their campaign but that fails more often than not.
If my failure to vote makes it harder on you, then perhaps take a look at your life and find out how you lost your power, your autonomy and self agency.
If your life can’t be good without voting going the way you intended, then you hold no power at all. You are not even a flickering candle. Just another useless eater.
Keep voting like you always have. See what happens to your world. Either that or wake up to the fact that you have been brainwashed to believe that you need the system to survive. Ultimately the choice is yours.
Yet I don’t fault you for your mental enslavement. You were born into this system and you simply don’t know any better. You are enthralled by the shadows projected on the walls of your cave and you simply have not discovered the truth of the world outside those walls.
It’s ok. You will learn someday. Maybe.
Thank you for your reply. Well said… some of us don’t wish to be ruled over, period.
Given the state of affairs in our nation and around the world, I’m stunned, jarred really, at the low participation rate.
I’m not. Why should Alaskans start caring enough to vote now?
Alaskans and politically lazy. Lazy people get the scraps.
Perhaps many in the populace have divorced themselves from the system and freed themselves from it’s thought prisons.
Whenever we get involved with politics, we are asked to takes sides against one color or another. We are expected to treat political parties as sports teams with all the media hype, fanfare and circus that goes along with it. We are asked to become divided against our fellow citizens based on made up social dilemmas such as reproductive “rights”, identity politics, Orange Man Bad what have you.
Politics has been a great tool to help divide the masses against itself.
Perhaps some of us are sick and tired of being divided for an elitist class that does not have our best interests at heart.
I wish for a united humanity and politics is the polar opposite of that unity.
Perhaps if the system was more in alignment with good and healthy, I would be more inclined to participate in it, but it is not, so I don’t.
Someone’s team is going to win this election season and the losing team will cry while the winning team will make fun of those crying.
I will have no part of that. I have already broken free from the illusion.
Take this perspective and maybe you won’t be so stunned as to why many of us quit participating in our own destruction.
“Perhaps if the system was more in alignment with good and healthy”
Good and healthy what exactly??
Since the dawn of time man has been tribal, grouping themselves together for survival, social interaction and support. Often those groups have clashed and one group won and the other did not…..so what is your point?
“Divide the masses” and who is going to make choices for those “liberated masses” of yours? Give the direction your community will go?
Your hippy commune vibe really does not exist, because even there you have leaders and followers, as in winners and losers.
You bemoan that we are ruled by “elites” yet you play into their hands by sitting home and letting their sycophants decide your fate, while advocating for the “masses” to check out and acquiesce to what ever scheme they have in mind! You are the source of our destruction.
I am in complete leadership of my life.
I don’t depend on the system and I am thriving.
The system has destroyed itself under the weight of its own corruption.
You blame me as the source of destruction? How humorous. You give me way too much credit.
See how powerless you are in your system? You cannot even exist if I don’t participate in your system.
Sure, I am the source of your destruction, fine. As usual you won’t take responsibility for your life and personal leadership.
You are the reason your country is going to hell, because you outsource all your power to some outside authority.
How easy, simple, privileged and pathetic you are to allow me, a single vote, to have so much power over your well being.
The sooner your system collapses the better. Maybe then you will find the reason to change and take your power back.
Really I am not worried about your single vote.
(yes I can see that all those replies are from only one source, nice try making it look like a movement)
You don’t want to participate…it’s a free country you do you!
What I find objectionable is your “pie in the sky” kumbaya attitude that encourages others to follow you down this path with claims of achieving power over oneself.
Power over oneself comes strictly from within, no outside force will change that. None of us live in a vacuum.
Demanding that the “system” collapse begs the question “then what?”.
You also speak of “the lesser” and “the masses”. All that reminds me of Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao or Saul Alinsky. Create chaos, collapse the system and see the new party/leader/god rise to “save” the people. You sell people the illusion of self-determination while envisioning everyone live the way YOU see fit!
No thank you, I hate gardening!
Humanity has had the solutions to all their problems for decades. Yet you keep bickering and voting for the same system that has failed to implement those solutions over and over again. If voting works, why doesn’t it work?
What is the definition of insanity?
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There’s virtually no reason to vote in the open primary, the vast majority of races aren’t impacted by it. The lead up to the open primary was no existent and likely the average voter had no idea it was occurring. I barely knew it was happening as it has zero impact on any of the races in my district.
The people of Alaska don’t seem to care about their future and their families future. I’m sure many of these people complain about the government but refuse to do anything about it. Look what happened to Anchorage with a 30% turn out, it’s now a leftist democrat shithole.
My eyes are on Dahlstrom and the AK GOP. Where is Dahlstrom in ensuring a fair and honest election? Where is the AK GOP in ensuring that every Alaskan is able to fulfill their duty of voting in our elections? Both are MIA.
I live in District 9 but almost didn’t get to vote and my roommate totally missed his chance due to the poor advertising done by Ms. Dahlstrom. Worst job of running an election in a long time and she expects us to vote for – outrageous!
I am wondering if the turnout would improve much if voters were told that these so-called “primaries” were actually first-round general elections, in other words, part of a two-round system general election, and were held in early October.
I personally do not understand why people don’t vote. The same ones doing all the complaining no doubt. Stop and consider You ARE making a difference by not voting, so why not vote and be a part of an intended difference. Government thrives on apathy.
Tell me RaeLynn, why is it that you vote exactly?
And this is why we have the government we have.
It was difficult to obtain information on the primary voting process. Nothing but ads were mailed. Neither the borough nor the state’s website helped, so I called the borough. A gal said, “Call the state” and hung up. I called the state and went right into voicemail. No call was returned. I went back to the state website and combed through the questions. They failed to address my questions. I finally found a list of candidates, but there were six or seven pages of names in alphabetical order. I started going through each one trying to find my district. That was ineffective and time consuming. Certainly, there is a better way. I Googled for help and landed a couple of ads for folks outside my area. After work, I drove to the last place I had voted early. The place closed at 5 pm. Others were there, too, hoping to vote. The next day after work, I drove to my district polling place. It was open, but they couldn’t find my name. I crossed the aisle and tried the other section. Fifteen minutes later, I was in front of a gal who did not understand alphabetical order. I helped her through the pages until I spotted my name. Dahlstrom should market voting: how to vote primaries, who are the candidates in your district, what propositions are in your district, where to vote early, where to vote on election day, and what times are the polling places open. It shouldn’t be this hard. It’s no wonder why turnouts are low.
I agree about the lack of election information coming out from the state. They have totally dropped the ball. Dahlstrom needs to be fired for not doing her job.
Low turnout is just another metric for the lack of homework and curiosity of the electorate. Kelly Merrick and Luise Stutes are excellent examples, LAST time they ran as Republicans and immediately handed over the majority, the Republican majority to the Democrats by caucussing with the Democrats. Did the voters learn? Hell no! Stutes and Merrick are both in the general again with an R behind their names. At least here in Chugiak we look to have a good chance to retire Merrick. Kodiak? What the hell?
To my neighbors in Chugiak and Eagle River. Merrick is married to a union leader and voted for defined benefit pensions. This alone will transfer YOUR state resource royalties to a few thousand government employees forever. Wake up! Educate yourselves. THEN go vote.
If you find yourself dissatisfied with the candidates not meeting your standards, perhaps it’s time to consider running for political office yourself. Instead of criticizing others’ involvement, taking action by running for office can enable you to make a tangible difference. Your intentions may seem noble, but in reality, it’s more proactive than mere commentary.