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AlaskaSB 6434th Legislature - First Session (2025)Senate
ELECTIONS
Sponsored By: SENATE RULES
Became Law
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Bill Overview
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15 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 0 costs, 7 mixed.
Stronger privacy and breach alerts
When the division shares confidential voter data with an outside helper, it must encrypt it, use it only for reviews, require no retention, and forbid re‑sharing. If a breach of confidential voter data happens, the director must post a notice and tell legislative leaders on a set timeline: before the election if found within 14 days before it; before certification if found on or after election day but before certification; or within 30 days if found earlier or after certification. The director may delay posting if law enforcement says disclosure would harm an investigation.
Voter roll checks and removals
The division checks the voter roll at least every January and sends a forwardable notice and email (if it has one) to confirm your address. It sends a notice if, in the last 2 years, your mail was returned or you have not contacted the division, or if you have not voted or appeared to vote in the last 28 months, or if it finds out you did certain out‑of‑state activities. You have 45 days to reply. If you do not, your registration is inactivated and kept on the roll. If you stay inactive through the second general election after inactivation, the director cancels your registration. The notice also says your registration can be cancelled if you do not contact the division or vote by the day after the 34th month from the notice. You “contact” the division by responding, updating your address, signing a ballot petition, asking for a new card, or otherwise writing to the division. A Permanent Fund Dividend application does not count unless it was your first registration. The division must use many data sources and adopt rules to find moves, duplicates, ineligible voters, and deaths.
Absentee voting deadlines and reviews
The state provides absentee ballots with a secrecy sleeve and a postage‑paid return envelope that has a voter certificate, spaces for a witness or official, and a legal warning. If you mail a ballot from overseas on or before election day, it must arrive by the 10th day after the election to count. Absentee officials must send marked ballot envelopes by the fastest delivery, which can include optical scanning or electronic transmission. Supervisors begin reviewing voter certificates at least 12 days before the election. A ballot can be rejected for a bad or unsigned certificate, missing attestation or date, no postmark by election day, late non‑mail delivery, or missing required ID. Some questioned ballots are not counted if ID rules are not met. Starting September 19, 2026, the state review board checks and counts cured absentee ballots and certain questioned ballots that local boards did not review.
Permanent Fund data for registration
Each month, the Permanent Fund Dividend office sends the elections division records for U.S. citizens who are 18 or will be within 90 days. The data include your mailing address and whether you claimed residency in another state. The commissioner sets security rules to keep these records safe when stored or sent. The division can use Revenue data only to register voters and to maintain voter rolls, and may not share confidential data except as allowed by law. Each year, the agencies report to the governor and legislature how many PFD records were shared, the effects on roll maintenance, and the security steps taken.
Help for rural voters and polling places
The Division of Elections hires a rural community liaison. The liaison works with tribes and local governments. They help people in rural areas use absentee voting and, where available, early voting. They also help make sure rural precincts have enough staff.
Pay for election board workers
The division pays election board members, and members of absentee, questioned, and state review boards, for the time they spend on duties and training. The director sets the pay amounts.
Ballot tracking and cure in 2026
Beginning September 19, 2026, the division provides a free, mobile‑friendly ballot tracker with multi‑factor login. You can see when a ballot was sent, delivered, received, and counted, and why a ballot was not counted. If your absentee ballot is rejected for a missing signature or ID, the division must try to contact you within 24 hours by email and by phone or text if numbers are on file, and send a first‑class mail notice within 48 hours but no later than five days after election day. To count the ballot, you must return the signed deficiency form with a copy of an accepted ID, and the division must receive it within 10 days after election day. The tracking system and the cure process take effect together.
More booths and polling standards
Every polling place must have at least one voting booth, and one booth or screen for each 100 votes or fraction of 100 from the last election. The elections director sets rules for polling places and standards for ballot boxes, screens, flags, supplies, and booths to protect ballot secrecy and run elections efficiently.
Plan to expand early voting
The division must give the legislature a report by the first day of the First Regular Session of the Thirty‑Fifth Legislature with options to expand early voting in rural communities and low‑income neighborhoods. The law defines “rural community” and “low‑income neighborhood” for the report.
Ranked-choice voting and write-ins
General election ballots use ranked‑choice voting. You rank candidates by preference and cannot give the same rank to two candidates for the same office. Write‑in votes are counted when your intent is clear. Small misspellings or abbreviations do not void a write‑in. Presidential write‑in candidates must file a letter with the required information.
Stronger election crime rules
The law clarifies that required postage‑paid return envelopes are not an illegal inducement to vote. It expands crimes to include opening or tampering with signed absentee certificates, sealed absentee envelopes, or ballot packages without permission, and hacking or tampering with election machines, software, or servers.
Voter ID rules for voting and registration
If you vote in person, you must show an accepted ID, like a voter card, driver’s license, state ID, current photo ID, birth certificate, passport, or tribal ID. If you register in person, you must show one of these IDs unless the official knows you. If you send an initial registration by mail or approved electronic means and you lack required numbers, you may send a copy of one accepted ID. If you mail an absentee ballot, you must provide proof of identity. First‑time mail or online registrants who have not met ID rules must include a copy of an accepted ID.
More vote totals and no early leaks
Each day the director posts unofficial totals, the website must show which precincts were counted, when absentee ballots were logged and counted, where early votes were cast, and which questioned ballots were counted. The division updates absentee and questioned ballot numbers each day they are reviewed. Election officials may not share results or confidential election data with non‑officials before polls close.
New true source donation rule
Beginning January 1, 2027, the “true source” of a campaign contribution is the person or entity whose money comes from wages, investments, inheritance, or sales. Groups that pass along donations are intermediaries, except a membership group that gets less than $2,000 per person per year, which is treated as the true source. This clarifies who must be named in campaign disclosures.
One 2026 school vote uses old rules
The new criminal election rules apply only to acts committed after their effective date. They do not apply to past conduct. The October 2026 regional school board election is run under the prior election rules. New changes in this Act do not apply to that one election.
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Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/23/2026
EFFECTIVE DATE(S) ADOPTED Y27 N12 E1
Yes: 27 • No: 12
Senate vote • 5/12/2025
PASSED Y14 N6
Yes: 14 • No: 6
Actions Timeline
(S) DUE BACK FROM GOVERNOR 4/30/26
4/13/2026Senate(S) 3:36 P.M. 4/13/26 TRANSMITTED TO GOVERNOR
4/13/2026Senate(S) MANIFEST ERROR(S)
4/2/2026Senate(S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
3/25/2026Senate(S) CONCUR AM OF (H) Y16 N4
3/25/2026Senate(S) CONCUR MESSAGE READ AND TAKEN UP
3/25/2026Senate(H) VERSION: HCS CSSB 64(FIN) AM H
3/23/2026House(H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) AS AMENDED
3/23/2026House(H) TITLE CHANGE: HCR 12
3/23/2026House(H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) ADOPTED Y27 N12 E1
3/23/2026House(H) PASSED Y23 N16 E1
3/23/2026House(H) READ THE THIRD TIME HCS CSSB 64(FIN) AM H
3/23/2026House(H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 11 FAILED Y18 N21 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 10 FAILED Y13 N26 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 9 AS AMD FAILED Y18 N21 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM 1 TO AM 9 ADOPTED UC
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 9 OFFERED
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 8 FAILED Y16 N23 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 7 FAILED Y16 N23 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 6 FAILED Y16 N23 E1
3/23/2026House(H) BEFORE HOUSE IN SECOND READING
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 5 OFFERED AND WITHDRAWN
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 4 FAILED Y16 N23 E1
3/23/2026House(H) AM NO 3 FAILED Y16 N23 E1
3/23/2026House
Bill Text
Enrolled SB 64
3/25/2026
HCS CSSB 64(FIN)
3/23/2026
HCS CSSB 64(FIN) am H
3/23/2026
CSSB 64(FIN) am
5/12/2025
CSSB 64(FIN)
5/9/2025
CSSB 64(STA)
3/28/2025
SB 64
1/24/2025