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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
Early in-person voting began Monday at 10 locations in the Railbelt, Juneau and Nome for Alaska’s Aug. 18 statewide primary election. As of July 31, just under 10,000 voters had requested absentee ballots for the election, and hundreds of absentee voters had already mailed in their votes, according to figures from the Alaska Division of Elections.
This election decides the four U.S. House, U.S. Senate and governor candidates who will be in the November general election. It also decides whether Alaska will limit the amount of money that political donors can give directly to candidates.
Because the top four candidates for an office advance to the November general election — and because most of the 50 state legislative races have four or fewer candidates — the primary doesn’t mean as much for most legislative races individually.
But because the difference between a Republican-led state House and Senate and a predominantly Democratic coalition-led state House and Senate may come down to a few votes, the handful of contested legislative elections may be important.2026 Voter Guide
The candidates, the ballot measures, and the tools you need to cast your vote.
Watch Eagle River, where incumbent Republican Rep. Jamie Allard is facing four challengers, or the eastern Mat-Su, where Dunleavy-appointed Republican Rep. Garret Nelson has five opponents. In the western Mat-Su, Republican Rep. Kevin McCabe has four challengers.
In the Senate, watch southwest Alaska, where Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, has retired and seven candidates — including current Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham — are running for the open seat.
Seven people are running for the state House seat that Edgmon is leaving open.
The difference is when your ID is verified. At an early voting location, a poll worker looks up your voter registration at a computer to verify that you’re registered to vote in a specific district, then hands you a ballot from that district.
You’ll want to bring a driver’s license, tribal ID or something else to verify your identity. Even a piece of mail with your current name and address will work. If the poll worker knows you, they can also verify your identity without ID.
When you vote absentee, you get a ballot for a district, then seal it inside an envelope and fill out the cover of that envelope with identity information.
Starting Aug. 11, review boards will begin checking the information on those envelopes to verify that those absentee ballots came from registered voters. The ballots within those envelopes will be counted once the polls close Aug. 18.
Absentee ballots can be mailed to the Division of Elections, or they can be cast in person at dozens of places across the state. While there’s only 11 early voting places in Alaska, there are many, many more places to cast in-person absentee votes, including at most city clerks offices.
Mailed absentee ballots will be counted as long as they’re postmarked on or before election day and reach the Division of Elections no later than Aug. 28.
In Alaska, not all mail is postmarked on the day it is mailed, so be sure to mail your ballot a few days early.
If you’re worried about mail delays, take your absentee ballot to one of the locations listed here before election day, or do early voting in person.
You can also fax a completed absentee ballot to the Division of Elections. If you don’t have a fax machine, you can use a scan-to-fax app on your cellphone instead.
Early voting ensures your vote gets counted, since your ID is verified up front, your ballot is already scanned and ready to be counted, and there’s a paper copy for any recounts and reviews.
The drawback is that it’s only offered in 10 places within the state, and if you’re traveling Outside or not close to one of those 10 places, it’s not available.
Your ballot will have two sides. On the front side are the U.S. House and U.S. Senate races. On the back side are the governor, state House and state Senate races. There’s also an option for Ballot Measure 1.
Pick one candidate for each race. Ranked-choice voting, when you’ll rank up to four candidates, is in November.
Use a blue or black pen to fill in the oval. Don’t use a permanent marker.
The first unofficial results will be posted online about 9 p.m. on Aug. 18. Full election day totals may take a few days to arrive as rural precincts report their results. Absentee ballots will be counted day by day, with new totals expected Aug. 25 and then on Aug. 28, when the last unofficial results will be posted.
Aug. 31 is when the division expects to certify the final results. That’s also the date for any top-four candidates to withdraw, something that has happened in prior years for strategic reasons.
Lower-finishing Republicans, in particular, have been willing to drop out of the top four to ensure that only one Republican appears on the November ballot.
Early in-person voting began Monday at 10 locations in the Railbelt, Juneau and Nome for Alaska’s Aug. 18 statewide primary election. As of July 31, just under 10,000 voters had requested absentee ballots for the election, and hundreds of absentee voters had already mailed in their votes, according to figures from the Alaska Division of Elections.
This election decides the four U.S. House, U.S. Senate and governor candidates who will be in the November general election. It also decides whether Alaska will limit the amount of money that political donors can give directly to candidates.
Because the top four candidates for an office advance to the November general election — and because most of the 50 state legislative races have four or fewer candidates — the primary doesn’t mean as much for most legislative races individually.
But because the difference between a Republican-led state House and Senate and a predominantly Democratic coalition-led state House and Senate may come down to a few votes, the handful of contested legislative elections may be important.
Watch Eagle River, where incumbent Republican Rep. Jamie Allard is facing four challengers, or the eastern Mat-Su, where Dunleavy-appointed Republican Rep. Garret Nelson has five opponents. In the western Mat-Su, Republican Rep. Kevin McCabe has four challengers.
In the Senate, watch southwest Alaska, where Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, has retired and seven candidates — including current Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham — are running for the open seat.
Seven people are running for the state House seat that Edgmon is leaving open.
The difference is when your ID is verified. At an early voting location, a poll worker looks up your voter registration at a computer to verify that you’re registered to vote in a specific district, then hands you a ballot from that district.
You’ll want to bring a driver’s license, tribal ID or something else to verify your identity. Even a piece of mail with your current name and address will work. If the poll worker knows you, they can also verify your identity without ID.
When you vote absentee, you get a ballot for a district, then seal it inside an envelope and fill out the cover of that envelope with identity information.
Starting Aug. 11, review boards will begin checking the information on those envelopes to verify that those absentee ballots came from registered voters. The ballots within those envelopes will be counted once the polls close Aug. 18.
Absentee ballots can be mailed to the Division of Elections, or they can be cast in person at dozens of places across the state. While there’s only 11 early voting places in Alaska, there are many, many more places to cast in-person absentee votes, including at most city clerks offices.
Mailed absentee ballots will be counted as long as they’re postmarked on or before election day and reach the Division of Elections no later than Aug. 28.
In Alaska, not all mail is postmarked on the day it is mailed, so be sure to mail your ballot a few days early.
If you’re worried about mail delays, take your absentee ballot to one of the locations listed here before election day, or do early voting in person.
You can also fax a completed absentee ballot to the Division of Elections. If you don’t have a fax machine, you can use a scan-to-fax app on your cellphone instead.
Early voting ensures your vote gets counted, since your ID is verified up front, your ballot is already scanned and ready to be counted, and there’s a paper copy for any recounts and reviews.
The drawback is that it’s only offered in 10 places within the state, and if you’re traveling Outside or not close to one of those 10 places, it’s not available.
Your ballot will have two sides. On the front side are the U.S. House and U.S. Senate races. On the back side are the governor, state House and state Senate races. There’s also an option for Ballot Measure 1.
Pick one candidate for each race. Ranked-choice voting, when you’ll rank up to four candidates, is in November.
Use a blue or black pen to fill in the oval. Don’t use a permanent marker.
The first unofficial results will be posted online about 9 p.m. on Aug. 18. Full election day totals may take a few days to arrive as rural precincts report their results. Absentee ballots will be counted day by day, with new totals expected Aug. 25 and then on Aug. 28, when the last unofficial results will be posted.
Aug. 31 is when the division expects to certify the final results. That’s also the date for any top-four candidates to withdraw, something that has happened in prior years for strategic reasons.
Lower-finishing Republicans, in particular, have been willing to drop out of the top four to ensure that only one Republican appears on the November ballot.
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U.S. District Judge for the District of Colorado Charlotte Sweeney seemingly upended college sports with her filing on Friday. In short, she granted an injunction against the NCAA that allows high school athletes who graduated in 2022, who’d previously exhausted their four years of eligibility, another year of eligibility based on the NCAA’s adoption of the five-for-five eligibility rule earlier this summer. And it’s being met with a mix of bemusement, optimism and acrimony. “Definitely a cluster f—,” one football assistant coach told me. “Like assembling a plane at 30,000 feet.” While on fire. The five-for-five rule grants NCAA athletes an opportunity to play sports for five seasons in five years. The new rule starts the eligibility clock for high school athletes at age 19 or upon enrolling at university — whichever comes first. The five-for-five rule sought to eliminate redshirting and seek an end to the growing number of eligibility cases the NCAA faces from student-athletes who feel they’ve been unfairly restricted from play due to eligibility rules the NCAA has selectively enforced. Now, with preseason training camp beginning this week for most FBS teams, general managers have an opportunity to add depth and experience to their rosters. However, they cannot dip into the transfer portal to do it. Judge Sweeney clarified this in her order on Sunday. “The Court’s order does not enjoin the operation of transfer rules,” Sweeney wrote. “As the plain language of the preliminary injunction order and this order make clear, the Court’s injunction concerns only the implementation of the Rule (as defined in the preliminary injunction order) and any Bylaw that prohibits Plaintiffs and Class Members from competing in a fifth season of collegiate athletics.” This means that teams can add players to their roster who were on it last year and had not entered the transfer portal, but those teams cannot break the revenue-sharing cap or go over the 105-player roster cap to do it. Furthermore, players who were 20 years old or older at the start of their five-year clock remain ineligible. Still, the NCAA plans to fight Judge Sweeney’s injunction and warned programs about adding players from the 2022 class back to their teams. “Schools and coaches must make their own independent decisions, but an injunction is intended to be short in duration, and the NCAA intends to appeal it on an expedited basis,” the NCAA wrote in a letter to its membership. It added Sweeney’s injunction “plainly lacks the authority to undermine the House injunction, which all of the plaintiffs in the Colorado case are bound by, including the roster limits and revenue share cap.” However, that has not stopped both players and general managers from actively looking to engage with each other. For instance, reigning national champion Indiana could theoretically add linebacker Kellan Wyatt and defensive end Stephen Daley to its 2026 team if the Hoosiers have the roster and revenue cap space. If they did, they’d return 99 games of experience, including 65 starts. “Par for the course this season,” an FBS general manager told me. “It’s been a year making it up as we go along.” The 2026 offseason has certainly felt that way. Following the crowning of a national champion, Congress has drafted two separate bills attempting to save college football from itself, while local judges and at least one federal one have provided injunctions and temporary restraining orders against the NCAA for players seeking a year of eligibility. The NCAA’s remedy, five-for-five, hasn’t survived two months without an unintended consequence, and the nature of college football players has never been more different. To wit: Players are suing to continue playing college football when, 20 years ago, Maurice Clarett was suing to get out of college football and all for one reason: money. No player was interested in playing a fourth — let alone fifth — year of college football until 2021, when it became clear that there was not just money but lots of money to be made playing the game, especially if players know the NFL believes they’re not good enough to play in its league. 2022 high school seniors under contract in the NFL are ineligible to play college football under Sweeney’s order. Some might still want to, though. In some cases, a veteran college football player can make more and is worth more to his team in college than in the NFL. Former Miami Hurricanes quarterback Carson Beck will make less as a rookie in the NFL than he did in his last season of college football on an NIL deal. Skilled labor is hard to come by in college because the nature of the sport is so transitive. Yet, there are more players to try to make college last longer because they know the NFL does not value them as much or, in some cases, at all. Former Texas offensive lineman Connor Hutson sued the NCAA for the chance to return to the Forty Acres only when he attended rookie mini camps with the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns and left without being offered a contract. However, he played 48 games with 23 starts for Steve Sarkisian’s Longhorns and could likely help this 2026 offensive line both on the field and at practice. He has value for them. “But should he?” isn’t a question the sport is concerned with. When Indiana wins the national title, and Texas doesn’t even qualify for the College Football Playoff, ethics in sport might well take a backseat to the cult of championships.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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