By RANDY RUEDRICH
Senate Bill 64 is enabling legislation for future statewide mail-in voting that the Anchorage municipal Democrats have already adopted.
This legislation paves the way to end in person voting on Election Day.
Ballots would be mailed to every voter currently registered at your residence.
Mail-in voting has been found to create significant voter fraud in other states. The video “2000 Mules” documented thousands of harvested mail-in ballots flowing into drop boxes for the 2020 General Election.
The bill would establish permanent absentee-by-mail ballot distribution, which sends a ballot to the voter’s old temporary address.
Prior Alaskan experience revealed less than 20% of these ballots were returned by someone, hopefully (but not necessarily) the voter.
The remaining 80% or more of the missing ballots present even more opportunities for fraudulent ballot harvesting.
The bill also removes the witness signature from the absentee-by-mail ballot envelopes.
Democrats say the witness signature is inconvenient. Well, so are voter ID, voter registration, and voting itself.
The witness signature affirms the identity of the voter. Removal of this voter identity affirmation clears the way for required voter signature verification, another mail-in voting cornerstone.
The bill’s “cure” process for Alaska absentee-by-mail ballots is not needed.
The 2024 ABM ballots statewide and especially from the four western rural districts were high-quality with less than 1.6% defects.
The cure process advocates argue voters need multiple chances to get their ballot submitted correctly.
The 2022 Special Primary Election and the prior 2020 Covid-impacted elections are the only examples of voters having witnessing issues.
The 2020 Covid saga created fear for everyone. Getting a witness signature could lead to your death was hype at its finest.
The bill’s drop boxes are a critical part of future vote harvesting and voter fraud in mail-in voting, as noted above.
Without evidence of a reoccurring need, why adopt these changes and huge expenses that go with them?
The only real reason is to have drop boxes, cure processes and no witness signatures available for thousands of future mail-in voting ballots.
Another major error in SB 64 is the destruction of the Alaska right to vote for those who are are outside of Alaska, by requiring the voter to return to the person’s place of “physical habitation.” There are many people who are out of state for all kinds of reasons — medical, family emergencies, education, or work station. Some of these are military voters.
The Democrats have historically pushed to eliminate military voters from Alaska’s elections.
Since a military voter cannot claim to return to their prior on base housing when they return to Alaska, they are automatically removed from the voter roll by this bill.
If a soldier or airman plans to retire to Alaska at the conclusion of his or her career, they do not return to their prior base housing. Hence, the military member’s plan to return is not adequate to maintain voter registration.
This Democrat ploy will eliminate our registered enlisted personnel who have viewed Alaska as their only home during more than decades-long military careers.
Similarly, when Alaskans leave for education, professional training, or career enhancing experience, the requirement to return to your prior residence is unrealistic. Family size and housing requirements change. To inhibit their Alaska voter registration with this ploy, discourages Alaskans from returning to their home state.
Furthermore, the bill rolls the Alaska Redistricting Board into the Open Meeting Act, which is inappropriate and another key reason to kill the bill, currently known as CSSB 64B.
SB 64 is extremely harmful to Alaskans and Alaskans’ Elections and must not become law.
Email your legislators and the governor to voice your opposition to SB 64.
A list of legislators is at this link. For senators, the email address style is: [email protected]. For House members, the email address is: [email protected]
Randy Ruedrich is a former chairman of the Alaska Republican Party and is considered one of Alaska’s most knowledgeable elections experts.
Why not just make Alaska ballots available by downloading them on one’s computer and make them interactive so people from all over the world could fill out a ballot and email it in to vote in our elections?
Democrats are always trying to cheat, and turn Alaska into California.
No to mail-in ballots. This is a left wing ploy. Don’t make it easy for the cheat.
Fact: We really have no idea who fills out a mail-in ballot or the conditions under which it was filled out.
Thanks for the heads up on this horrible bill. Every state, including the one we left to relocate to Alaska went from red to pink, then purple, light blue, and finally dark blue within 10 years (or less) of Democrat run legislatures passing bills like SB64. As columnist Daniel Greenfield said years go, the Democrats will not stop until they get a 50 state blue majority. MRAK readers must get the word out that this bill has to be stopped or red state AK will be done for.
The high-quality 2024 ABM ballots statewide and four western rural districts with less than 1.6% defects offered some clue about the validity of 700 Kipnuk votes for Cornell West?
(https://mustreadalaska.com/hotbed-of-socialism-in-kipnuk-the-village-voters-who-went-wild-for-cornel-west/)
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Randy, your essay is good.
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What would make it great is a loud, in-your-face, Art-of-the-Deal counterproposal, a Senate Bill, bills if need be, to ditch mail-in voting, ranked-choice voting, and the godda… goshdarn Dominion vote-counting gear which no Authority Figure seems willing to talk about, and to restore the miracle of same-day election results.
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A reasoned, seasoned, knowledgeable, credible voice such as yours might well persuade the Guv to call a special session and fix our election problem in all respects, once and for all, yes?
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Sure and it’s a Big Ask, but, we suspect you’ve come to the same conclusion that totally FUBAR’d election and grand-jury systems might be all that props up our lobbyist-legislator regime. Difference is you know Important People who’ll help.
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Put those things back in the hands of productive citizens, who knows the good we’ll accomplish?
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Ruedrich-Tavoliero, Tavoliero-Ruedrich …just the team to lead us out of our swamp.
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Undoubtedly you two are already figuring out how to do just that.
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Thanks in advance.
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How can we help?
A senator(D) from Anchorage replied to my Vote No on SB64 email with the following: “This bill does not make Alaska statewide elections by mail. That is completely false.” I replied setting the groundwork to mimic what Anchorage has done with mail ballot elections should not be replicated throughout Alaska.
We’re just a colony, going the way of Left Coast states. Once it’s mail in only, there are no more “elections”, and no way to vote out of a permanent dictatorship.
It will be over soon. We won’t even have the drama of a pretend there are viable candidates or the conservative has a chance elections.
Washington State almost lost to a Republican Governor Rossi some years ago, until a box full of ballots was “found” in a car trunk. That was too close, Washington went all mail in, and no more stress, ever again.
Murkowski must be preserved in place no matter what and whatever neocon Republican to pretend this is a free state.
The transformation will be almost complete. Liberal Marxists from San Diego to Utquiagvik. All the way up the coast.
Kipnuk did not cast 700 votes for Cornell West nor did Kipnuk cast 50 votes as reported on Nov 12 in MRAK. The State Review Board confirms the ballot counts from each district. Kipnuk cast 1 vote for Cornell West, 50 votes for Donald Trump, 49 votes for Kamala Harris and 5 votes for RFK Jr.
Those Kupnuk vote totals reasonable.
Mail in ballots are just too easy to falsify. They are especially bad when the ballots are sent out without first requesting one. Ballot harvesting, ala Gabrielle LeDoux, is still strong in my mind.