Early in-person voting in Alaska starts today!

https://www.reddit.com/r/anchorage/comments/je1aga/early_inperson_voting_in_alaska_starts_today/

created by mustardhamsters on 19/10/2020 at 13:07 UTC

113 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)

Just a timely reminder: Today is the first day you can vote in person in Alaska! You can vote at early voting locations any time between now and Election Day.

I'll keep this brief, since /u/flyinmacaronimonster has a great post in this sub already on all the details you need for voting early in Alaska[1]. My buddy and I have also been researching how you can cast an early ballot in person in each state, and made a little website to make it easy to find and share the official information outside of Reddit. Here's the page for Alaska, if there's anything we should add please let me know: https://earlyvoting.com/alaska[2]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/anchorage/comments/jcxwo9/alaska_voting_information/

2: https://earlyvoting.com/alaska

One point of interest on your ballot: Alaska has a ballot measure on ranked choice voting[3]. There's a discussion in /r/AlaskaPolitics[4] worth reading if you're looking for more details. This would make Alaska one of the first states in the country to use ranked choice voting, after Maine.

3: https://www.elections.alaska.gov/petitions/19AKBE/19AKBE_Ballot_Summary_FINAL.pdf

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlaskaPolitics/comments/j2455k/we_are_alaskans_for_better_elections_and_we_are/

Other states are seeing a lot of people vote in advance this year. Check out the U.S. Election Project site[5] for a live tracker of early votes coming in. Over 28 million ballots have already been cast. That's 20% of the **total** turnout from 2016. Get it done early so you can relax!

5: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

Comments

Comment by Bsdshadow at 19/10/2020 at 16:16 UTC

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Love your website. Thank you for putting this together. I'm going to go vote today.

Comment by Diegobyte at 19/10/2020 at 16:40 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It’s at Sears mall btw.

Comment by redfuzzyllama at 19/10/2020 at 18:15 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

The website says anyone who is registered to vote in Alaska can vote absentee. However, I was told I can’t, as I don’t have an Alaska drivers license or ID.

Comment by crazygranny at 19/10/2020 at 23:43 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you for this information!! I’ve been wanting to vote early but I’m not keen on the mail in and I’ve been anxious about going on Election Day in person. This makes things much easier.

Comment by Moosacabra at 20/10/2020 at 04:26 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I got word that 1150 people voted at the mall alone! Perhaps as many at city hall. That’s amazing.