Alaska Statutes Title 15, Chapter 15.15 - Elections and Ballots

• Sec. 15.15.010 General Administrative Supervision by Director.
  The director shall provide general administrative supervision over the conduct of state elections, and may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary...
• Sec. 15.15.020 Date of General Election.
  The general election is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every even numbered year.
• Sec. 15.15.030 Preparation of Official Ballot.
  The director shall prepare all official ballots to facilitate fairness, simplicity, and clarity in the voting procedure, to reflect most accurately the intent of...
• Sec. 15.15.032 Use of Electronically Generated Ballots.
  (a) If the director provides for voting by use of electronically generated ballots, the director shall provide balloting equipment that would allow voters with...
• Sec. 15.15.035 Printing of Ballots and Other Material.
  The director may not be required to do business with a printing company while the company is involved in a labor dispute.
• Sec. 15.15.040 Preparation of Other Election Materials.
  (a) The director shall prescribe the form of and prepare tinted sample ballots and all other materials, forms, and supplies required for the election.(b)...
• Sec. 15.15.050 Distribution of Election Materials.
  The director shall distribute an adequate supply of sample and official ballots and all other materials, forms, and supplies required for the election to...
• Sec. 15.15.060 Polling Places, Voting Booths, and Supplies.
  (a) Immediately following the appointment of the election board, the election supervisor in conjunction with the election board chair shall secure polling places for...
• Sec. 15.15.070 Public Notice of Election Required.
  (a) The director shall give and is authorized to contract to give full public notice of the election. The director may select a manner...
• Sec. 15.15.080 Time for Opening and Closing Polls.
  (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, on the day of any election, each election board shall open the polls for voting...
• Sec. 15.15.090 Designation of Precinct Polling Place.
  The polling place shall be located within the precinct unless the election supervisor and the election board chairperson determine that a building located in...
• Sec. 15.15.100 Time Off for Voting.
  A qualified voter who does not have sufficient time outside working hours within which to vote at a state election may, without loss of...
• Sec. 15.15.110 General Duties and Oath of Election Board.
  The election board shall supervise the election in the precinct. Before entering upon the duties of office, each election official shall take an oath...
• Sec. 15.15.120 Filling Vacancies in Election Board.
  If an appointed election board member fails to appear and subscribe to the oath on election day or becomes incapacitated during the time of...
• Sec. 15.15.130 Majority Decision of Election Board.
  The decision of the majority of election board members determines the action that the election board shall take regarding any question that arises during...
• Sec. 15.15.140 Permitted Use of Unofficial Ballots.
  (a) If the election board receives an insufficient number of official ballots or official election materials, it shall provide and the voters may use...
• Sec. 15.15.150 Official Opening of Polls.
  On the day and hour of election, the election board shall announce that the polls are open and receive the voters.
• Sec. 15.15.160 Prohibition of Political Discussion by Election Board.
  During the hours that the polls are open, an election board member may not discuss any political party, candidate, or issue while on duty.
• Sec. 15.15.170 Prohibition of Political Persuasion Near Election Polls.
  During the hours the polls are open, a person who is in the polling place or within 200 feet of any entrance to the...
• Sec. 15.15.180 Keeping of Register.
  The election officials shall keep a register or registers in which each voter before receiving a ballot shall sign the voter's name and give...
• Sec. 15.15.190 Keeping of Duplicate Register. [Repealed, Sec. 231 Ch 100 Sla 1980. for Current Law, See As 15.15.180 ].
  
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 15.15.195 Voters on Official Registration List.
  An election official in a precinct shall allow a voter on the official registration list to vote in the precinct unless the voter is...
• Sec. 15.15.198 Voters Not on Official Registration List.
  (a) If a voter's name does not appear on the official registration list in the precinct in which the voter seeks to vote, the...
• Sec. 15.15.200 Questioning of Voter of Doubtful Qualification. [Repealed, Sec. 38 Ch 116 Sla 1972].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 15.15.210 Questioning of Voters of Suspect Qualification.
  Every election official shall question, and every watcher and any other person qualified to vote in the precinct may question, a person attempting to...
• Sec. 15.15.213 Questioning a Voter's Ballot. [Repealed, Sec. 43 Ch 85 Sla 1988].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 15.15.215 Disposition of Questioned Votes.
  (a) A voter who casts a questioned ballot shall vote the ballot in the same manner as prescribed for other voters. The voter shall...
• Sec. 15.15.220 Administration of Oaths.
  Any election official may administer to a voter any oath that is necessary in the administration of the election.
• Sec. 15.15.225 Voter Identification At Polls.
  (a) Before being allowed to vote, each voter shall exhibit to an election official one form of identification, including(1) an official voter registration card,...
• Sec. 15.15.230 Providing Ballot to Voter.
  When the voter has qualified to vote, the election official shall give the voter an official ballot. The voter shall retire to a booth...
• Sec. 15.15.240 Voter Assistance.
  A qualified voter needing assistance in voting may request an election official, a person, or not more than two persons of the voter's choice...
• Sec. 15.15.250 Disposition of Spoiled Ballot.
  If a voter improperly marks, damages, or otherwise spoils a ballot, the voter may request and the election board shall provide another ballot, with...
• Sec. 15.15.260 Placing Ballot in Ballot Box by Voter.
  When the voter has marked a ballot, the voter shall inform the election official. The ballot shall be deposited in the ballot box by...
• Sec. 15.15.270 Prohibiting the Leaving of the Polling Place With Ballot.
  A voter may not leave the polling place with the official ballot that the voter received to mark.
• Sec. 15.15.280 Prohibiting the Exhibition of Marked Ballots.
  Subject to AS 15.15.240 a voter may not exhibit the voter's ballot to an election official or any other person so as to enable...
• Sec. 15.15.290 Prohibiting the Identification of Ballots.
  While the polls are open, an election official may not open any ballot received from a voter, or mark a ballot by folding or...
• Sec. 15.15.300 Prohibiting the Count of Exhibited Ballots.
  An election official may not allow a ballot to be placed in the ballot box that the official knows to have been unlawfully exhibited...
• Sec. 15.15.310 Official Closing of Polls.
  Fifteen minutes before and at the time of closing the polls, the election board shall announce the present time and the time of closing...
• Sec. 15.15.320 Voters in Line When Polls Close.
  Every qualified voter present and in line at the time prescribed for closing the polls may vote.
• Sec. 15.15.330 Commencement of Ballot Count.
  When the polls are closed and the last vote has been cast in a hand-count precinct, the election board shall immediately proceed to open...
• Sec. 15.15.340 Duties, Oath, and Vacancies of Additional Election Officials.
  Additional election officials shall report to the election board at the polls at the time designated by the election supervisor or the chairperson of...
• Sec. 15.15.350 General Procedure for Ballot Count.
  (a) The director may adopt regulations prescribing the manner in which the precinct ballot count is accomplished so as to ensure accuracy in the...
• Sec. 15.15.360 Rules for Counting Ballots.
  (a) The election board shall count ballots according to the following rules:(1) A voter may mark a ballot only by filling in, making "X"...
• Sec. 15.15.361 Stickers.
  Affixing stickers on a ballot in an election to vote for a write-in candidate is prohibited.
• Sec. 15.15.365 Counting of Write-In Votes in General Election.
  (a) Write-in votes on a general election ballot shall be counted for a candidate only if the aggregate of all votes cast for all...
• Sec. 15.15.370 Completion of Ballot Count; Certificate.
  When the count of ballots is completed, and in no event later than the day after the election, the election board shall make a...
• Sec. 15.15.380 Payment of Election Board Members.
  The director shall pay each election board member for time spent at election duties, including the receiving of instructions. Election board chairpersons and the...
• Sec. 15.15.390 Election Expenses.
  The director shall prescribe the manner of certifying, auditing, and paying election expenses, including the cost of giving notice, renting polling places, paying election...
• Sec. 15.15.400 Preparation of Voter List.
  The director shall prepare both a statewide list and a list by precinct of the names and addresses of all persons who voted in...
• Sec. 15.15.410 Plural Voting.
  Upon a determination that a person has voted more than once in the same election, the director shall notify the attorney general.
• Sec. 15.15.420 Duty to Review the Ballot Counting.
  The director shall review the counting of the ballots with the assistance of and in the presence of the appointed representatives from the political
• Sec. 15.15.430 Scope of the Review of Ballot Counting.
  (a) The review of ballot counting by the director shall include only(1) a review of the precinct registers, tallies, and ballots cast;(2) a review...
• Sec. 15.15.440 State Ballot Counting Review.
  The state ballot counting review shall begin as soon as practicable after the election is completed and no later than 16 days after an...
• Sec. 15.15.450 Certification of State Ballot Counting Review.
  Upon completion of the state ballot counting review the director shall certify the person receiving the largest number of votes for the office for...
• Sec. 15.15.460 Tie Votes.
  If two or more candidates tie in having the highest number of votes for the same office for which there is to be elected...
• Sec. 15.15.470 Preservation of Election Ballots, Papers, and Materials.
  The director shall preserve all precinct election certificates, tallies, and registers for four years after the election. All ballots and stubs for elections other...
• Sec. 15.15.480 Security of Ballots.
  All official ballots in the possession of election officials, whether voted or not voted, shall be kept in a secure manner until destroyed in...
• Sec. 15.15.500 - 15.15.535. [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 34 Sla 2001].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 15.15.550 - 15.15.575. [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 34 Sla 2001].
  Repealed or Renumbered

Last modified: November 15, 2016