Donald Handeland
53:32 - 53:37
“For assembly seats, it would be 50 signatures.”
- Speaker
- Donald Handeland
- Timestamp
- 53:32 – 53:37
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
So there's been some kind of discussion kind of going back and forth, we kind of heard from the community. And so just to try to keep things simple, originally the proposal was to have it 1% of the last race, whichever one you were running in. And so whether it was school board, mayor, assembly, this kind of complicated a little things because you would have some districts that had small numbers, some things. And so to just kind of keep things simple, also for the municipal clerk there was just to have it by district. For assembly seats, it would be 50 signatures.
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