How a change to mail-in voting could impact Alaska’s most rural voters

Platinum, Alaska on May 29, 2026. (Samantha Watson/KYUK)
Platinum, on the Bering Sea coast, is a small town — it has fewer than 50 residents. But when it comes to local elections, administrators make sure that traveling even small distances within town doesn’t get in the way of voting.
“We’ll go to elderly homes and present the ballots, because they, hard to get around for them,” explained Lou Adams, the acting tribal administrator for Platinum Village Traditional