Take Action

We support Ranked Choice Voting and open primaries.

The Benefits:

• Gives voters more meaningful choices:  Allows candidates from outside the two major parties to compete.
• Eliminates spoilers and strategic voting: Allows voters to support their favorite candidate without worrying that they might “throw their vote away.”
• Reduces negative campaigning: Candidates must be less negative to appeal to a wider group of people or risk losing second or third place votes.
• Reduces the influence of money in politics: By making negative advertising less effective, ranked choice voting reduces the need for, and influence of, money in politics.

House Bill 4 and Senate Bill 2 seek to repeal Ranked Choice Voting and open primaries.  We oppose House Bill 4 and Senate Bill 2.

We support the use of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) as one acceptable way to achieve the goal of the direct popular vote for election of the president until the abolition of the Electoral College is accomplished.

What is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of US states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states + DC. This is achieved through passing the NPV bill in a state legislature and once done, the electoral votes in that state are added to the mix.

Thanks to Sen. Wielechowski for introducing the bill in the AK Legislature.  

Support Senate Bill 61!

The League of Women Voters of Alaska believe our students are the future of Alaska.

Excerpts from the Sponsor Statement:

“In recent years, flat funding and inflation have degraded Alaska’s vital system of public education. Without additional funding, Alaska will see increasingly large class sizes and continued teacher and staff attrition.

SB 52 would increase transparency by requiring the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) to create an online data dashboard to be a single point of relevant information about Alaska’s public schools.

…increasing the BSA is a fiscally responsible use of revenue because improving educational opportunities and outcomes is an investment in our shared future as Alaskans.”

Senate Bill 52  and House Bill 65 seek to increase the annual investment in public education across the State of Alaska by increasing the Base Student Allocation (BSA) over a period of three years.

Support Senate Bill 52 and House Bill 65!

We believe that the current process of selecting judges works!

We concur with this statement from retired Alaska Chief Justice Daniel Winfree:

“I recognize that some here don’t believe in an independent judiciary but rather believe that Alaska’s judges should be hand-picked and controlled by politicians so that the judges will render decisions that the politicians want. Our constitutional convention delegates were aware of that view and they expressly rejected it, along with rejecting the notion of elected judges and they did so in favor of the merit selection process we have in Alaska. The delegates wanted politics out of the judicial selection process all the way up to the governor’s constitutionally authorized appointment of a judge from the list of the most-qualified applicants provided by the Alaska Judicial Council.”

We oppose House Bill 82!