Alaskans were split between the ballot measures yesterday: the act to tie voter registration to PFD applications was approved but an amendment to Alaska’s Constitution to use state bonds to back college student loans was declined.
John-Henry Heckendorn with the PFD Voter Registration initiative detailed what Ballot Measure 1 will do.
Heckendorn: “If someone applies for their PFD and qualifies successfully, they would be automatically registered to vote if the initiative passed. They would also have the option to opt out if they didn’t want to register to vote for some reason. So after they applied for the PFD, they would get a post card in the mail from [Division of Elections] saying ‘Check this box if you don’t want to be registered to vote’ and they would send that back in and not be included in the registration update.”
63 percent of Alaskan voter supported Ballot Measure 1.
Ballot Measure 2 was turned down by 56 percent of Alaskans voting no.