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Zac Johnson

28:50 - 29:19

“It also improves rural access by creating a dedicated rural liaison. So this is somebody who's ultimately responsible for working with rural communities to make sure that they have the tools and resources they need so that everyone in Alaska has the opportunity to participate.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Alaska
Captured at
October 22, 2026

From the transcript

And if there is a technical error that needs to be fixed, it is flagged for you and are you given the opportunity to cure your ballot. It also improves rural access by creating a dedicated rural liaison. So this is somebody who's ultimately responsible for working with rural communities to make sure that they have the tools and resources they need so that everyone in Alaska has the opportunity to participate. It also includes some reasonable efforts to clean up our voter roll to make sure everyone who can vote is able to and those that shouldn't aren't. And I think these are just some basic steps that I frankly should have been put in place already, but we certainly would support moving forward.

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