Pilot program aids voter registration, absentee balloting for eligible prisoners in Alaska

Juneau Empire: The Alaska Division of Elections and the League of Women Voters have a plan to boost voter registration ahead of this fall’s elections.

But first, they’re going to prison.

On July 10, two volunteers from the Juneau chapter of the League of Women Voters visited Lemon Creek Correctional Center with Charity Coleman of the Alaska Division of Elections to allow inmates to register for this fall’s elections and request absentee ballots.

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