Through Friday, the 6,736 early Alaska votes in the November election disproportionately came from registered Democrats.

Hafner is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in New York after pleading guilty in 2022 to phoning in false bomb threats and threatening judges, police officers and lawyers in his home state of New Jersey.

In a sprawling rural district that is the Alaska region with the highest poverty level, a freshman legislator from the population hub is defending his seat against a political newcomer from one of the outlying villages and a perennial challenger from a different village.

The delegates also adopted a resolution endorsing U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, who is Yup’ik, as Alaska’s sole representative to Congress. She’s the first Alaska Native member of Congress. She’s in a tight race to hold on to her position in Alaska, which typically votes Republican.

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I watched all the debates. Mary Peltola has never done anything foolish, but neither has she ever said anything wise. She trades for her own account as we all do, but she identifies her constituency as only a small subset of Alaskans when she tells the rest of us that we should be satisfied that she supports fish,

Hajdukovich and Kawasaki will appear on the ballot for residents of District P in the general election on November 5.

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The Alaska Federation of Natives voted Saturday to endorse the reelection of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola and to oppose the ballot measure to repeal the state’s open primaries and ranked choice voting.

How did incumbent U.S. House Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican challenger Nick Begich make their case across three debates in one week?

Ballot measure sponsors hope the Alaska Legislature passes a substantially similar law in 2025, in time for it to take effect before 2026.