Polls open at 7 a.m. on Alaska’s pick-one, top-four statewide primary election day

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: August 18, 2026

Words: 1,487

Last Updated: 16 hours, 3 minutes ago

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Over a month ago, Shelley Cotton cast the first vote in Alaska’s statewide primary election, downloading a blank ballot and sending it quickly by mail from Texas to Alaska.

Since then, more than 31,000 other Alaskans have cast their ballots, and starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, tens of thousands more residents will vote in an election that will start to decide who Alaska’s next governor will be.

What’s on the ballot?

Seventeen …

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