Current primary balloting system frustrating  Posted: Friday,
December 17, 2010  As a registered Undeclared Alaskan voter, I
find the current primary ballot selection process very
frustrating and feel it takes away from my freedom of choice. To
vote for persons running for office I must chose one of two
ballots -- the Republican ballot listing only Republicans, or
the Democratic ballot listing Democrats and the names of
individuals running in other parties.  The combined total of
registered nonpartisan and undeclared voters in Alaska exceeds
250,000. The next largest group is the Republican party with
slightly more than half of that amount. To me, that means that
the largest majority of Alaskan voters, those like me, prefer to
vote for individuals not the party line.  Using the recent
primary as an example, I wanted to vote for a Republican for one
office and someone from a different party for another. Yet, I
was not allowed to exercise my freedom of choice in this matter.
I either had to take one ballot or t