Alaska's Oil Cash Now Comes With Automatic Voter Registration
Backers say the reform—rare for so red a state—could give Alaska the nation's most comprehensive voter rolls.
Alaskan voters line up to receive their ballots at a polling station in Anchorage on Nov. 2, 2010.
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The same day Alaskans delivered their state to Donald Trump, they voted nearly two to one to embrace a progressive new voter-registration reform.
Under the new law, passed by referendum Tuesday, Alaskans who sign up to receive their annual payouts from the state’s oil wealth trust will also automatically be added to the state's voter rolls.