“When you fill out your PFD (Permanent Fund Dividend form), you are automatically registered to vote. If you are not a U.S. Citizen, contact the Division of Elections so they can cancel your voter registration.”

— Alaska Division of Elections website

(From the August 16, 2024 Must Read Alaska article, “Alaska election integrity loophole lets non-citizens get a state voter ID card, and even vote in elections”)

To be eligible for an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, you don’t actually have to be a citizen of the U.S. You can be someone living in the U.S. lawfully, someone who is a refugee, or who has been granted asylum.

But by the time an application for a dividend is adjudicated, the voter registration card is already in the hands of the applicant because this is an automatic process that happens at the time the application is submitted. To vote in Alaska, one must only show that voter identification card.

The chances of being caught are negligible. Only a handful of people have been charged with voter fraud over the past decade.

Read the entire article here.