By SUZANNE DOWNING
Aug. 3, 2026 – The Alaska Democratic Party has launched a mass-mail campaign encouraging Alaskans to request absentee ballots for the 2026 state and federal elections.
Copies of the mailing were addressed generically to a person “or Current Resident,” rather than to a verified individual voter. At some post offices, unwanted copies have been discarded and are plainly visible in publicly accessible trash bins.
A photograph of the application shows three selections already marked: a request for absentee ballots for every election in the calendar year, “Yes” in response to whether the applicant is a US citizen, and “Yes” in response to whether the applicant is at least 18 or will turn 18 within 90 days.
The recipient is left to provide a name, Alaska residence address, mailing address, identification number, birthdate and handwritten signature.
The Alaska Republican Party was told by the Division of Elections to not pre-fill the eligibility boxes, but due to a printer error, a small number of absentee ballot applications did indeed have the items pre-filled, but that was before the printer corrected the error. However, none were sent to an anonymous “or current resident.” They were only sent to actual voters with voter records available at the Division of Elections.
That is an important difference and raises a question: Why is the Democratic Party answering the two threshold eligibility questions before it knows who will complete the application?
Alaska is a no-excuse absentee voting state, and political parties and other organizations may distribute absentee-ballot applications. Voters frequently receive applications from more than one organization. But state law requires an application to be made on a form prescribed or approved by the Division of Elections. A form not prepared by the division must receive the director’s approval before it is distributed to the public.
The photographed document above is a copy of the Division of Elections’ C06 form, revised on Jan. 12. State law expressly limits some third-party alterations: A person may indicate a political affiliation only when the recipient is already registered with that affiliation, and only the voter or someone holding the voter’s written power of attorney may mark the voter’s primary-ballot choice.
The law does not appear to contain an equally explicit prohibition against a third party marking the citizenship and age eligibility boxes. That, however, does not answer whether the Division of Elections considers the practice appropriate, particularly when the application is sent to “Current Resident” rather than a specifically identified voter.
The form itself says that an applicant who answers “No” to either eligibility question cannot register. By marking both answers “Yes” in advance, the Democratic Party has turned what should be two affirmative declarations by the applicant into default assumptions. Signing this form is sworn testimony, and falsely claiming citizenship would be perjury.
The generic mailing also creates a chain-of-custody concern. An uncompleted application addressed to “Current Resident” can be discarded, retrieved, and filled out by someone other than the intended household member.
A completed application still requires a name, residence address, identifying information, birthdate and handwritten signature. Election officials process the request against voter-registration information before issuing a ballot. But combined with the ability of people to register to vote simply by applying for a Permanent Fund dividend, this is an additional loophole for voter fraud.
Citizenship and age are foundational voter qualifications, not convenience boxes for a political party to complete in advance. If the applicant must swear under penalty of perjury that the information is true, the applicant should be the person who answers those questions.
The Alaska Democratic Party is giving the applicant plausible deniability if they sign a form that has incorrect eligibility information on it.
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20 thoughts on “Alaska Democrats flood ‘current resident’ mailboxes with absentee applications — citizen eligibility boxes already marked ‘Yes’”
The one I got in the mail had my name and address prefilled out as well as the checked boxes
Mike, just like yours mine was prefilled but it also had Dan J. Sullivan already checked.
That wld mean you got a BALLOT, not an absentee application.
I should clarify, the flyer I received was from Alaskan Republicans Inc.
Why does the Democrat Party insist upon disenfranchising legal voters?
How is the Democratic Party disenfranchising voters?
Because, Steve-O, they can’t win if they can’t cheat, and they know it.
The worthless Elvi Gray Jackson was on my flight out of Las Vegas this afternoon. Why isn’t she in Juneau working to pass the LNG pipeline? Lousy Democrats.
The cheating has begun!!!!
The Democrat way. This is what they do.
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Democrats understand the RCV system better than Republicans. The entire point of RCV is to get “several” of their primary candidates into the general election (Final Four). Then, they can rank their own. With the redistribution of votes after each count, they have better odds of getting some Democrat into the seat. It doesn’t even matter which Democrat wins, as long as its a Democrat. Meanwhile, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to effectively play RCV, let alone win with it.
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There is only one way to beat these cheating, power hungry, America hating bastards: educate Republicans, Independents, and all others how RCV actually works. Then, tell them who to vote for in order that we still have a democratic republic country after the election. Otherwise, the communists will take control.
There’s another effective way to beat these ^?&$% but, it includes Pb.
Death certificates also takes them off the voter rolls.
Too bad that’s not true.
The likely Alaska Republican voters will win using an RCV ballot IF only they play as a team and unite.
Unlike the AKDemocrats who can play multiple strategies. Uniting for AkGop members and other likely R voters is the only strategy they got for them.
Right now Bernedette is leading the Red team whether or not a Republican trusts, likes, or respects her. She should get the number 1 vote of every Republican. After that choose the next two Republicans running behind her in that order. Then the top three Republicans in that order can’t lose.
However. Republicans only will have one choice for Governor not two or three choices. One.,
The winning ticket is how well AKRepublicans and other likely R voters
Unite beyond differences of one another.
Whoever in the AKGOP thought it a good strategy for All the Republican leaders to had wasted their time being a Governor candidate hopeful to run for Governor after Bernadette made her campaign for Governor public on the capital steps. Whoever they are made a bad choice and poor leadership, when the members and the groups leaders need to be united not playing by old rules when primaries were closed.
I hope more AKRepublican voters and likely other R voters listen to that knowledge coming from you Rob.
“ educate Republicans, Independents, and all others how RCV actually works. Then, tell them who to vote for in order that we still have a democratic republic country after the election.”
They need to Unite. Leaders among the Red team need to put Ego, pride, arrogance behind them and unite so that the members and other voters aren’t confused how the group is supporting and voting.
Because right now members are very confused. You got a larger group who’ll put Bernedette as 1, another group who’ll put Bronson as 1, another group putting Crum 1, Or Hughes 1, follower by everyone else putting another gubernatorial candidate as 1. The top four favorites among Republicans and likely R voters they may not even make the final four if the voters are so split on an RCV ballot with so many Governor candidates to choose from.
Well said. Democrats must be pretty stupid people. They can’t even find the correct boxes to put their own ‘X’ on. Brainwashed, indoctrinated sheep, is what they are
Stupid like a fox, eh?
No surprise – exactly what we’ve come to expect from the lying, cheating, scumbag demoncats.
At least when AKRepublican Anchorage office sent out its mailers they sent out their letter of requesting an absentee ballot to registered republicans
What the AKDemocrats have done, it should be made illegal
In the first place, voters should be requesting their own application for an absentee ballot imho.
All of the parties jumping on the bandwagon and sending out applications for absentee ballots should not be allowed. We already have enough problems with mail-in and absentee ballot abuse in this state and I feel that this is going to add to that number of abuses.
I didn’t even read through the application that I received. But, now that I look at it, my “Elections” section says to send me an absentee ballot for all elections in the calendar year. My “Eligibility” section has the citizen and age requirement boxes already checked.
I didn’t request an application from the state, nor from my “party.” I didn’t fill in the portions of the application sent to me that I did not request and the state didn’t do it.
Lastly, people who are planning on voting In Person are going to toss these “applications” in the trash. How can we assure that these tossed applications aren’t going to be fished out of the trash and used by someone else? We cannot. So much for election security.