On May 16, the Alaska House Rules Committee passed SB 161. It has now passed the Senate and all committees in the house. It will probably receive a vote on the House floor on Tuesday, May 17.
It eases the definition of a qualified party, from registration membership of 3% of the last vote cast (approximately 11,000 registered members) to exactly 5,000.
Qualification of political parties to have affiliated candidates appear on the state monopoly printed ballot is censorship. Until the late 19th century it was the individual voter alone who “qualified” political parties and their candidates by voting with a ballot owned by the voter.
All ballot access censorship must be abolished to restore authentic democracy by making the ballot again the property of the voter and not the state.
@DFR,
Alaska has no party qualification for congress, legislature, or governor.
Its only party qualification is to make nominations for president. Rather than making qualification for president the same as for any other office.
This lets parties like the Libertarian Party pretend they have higher status than the Constitution or UCES Clowns.