2:11 It would mean Alaskans could register to vote when applying for their PFD, but they would need to opt in, rather than opt out. The 2016 initiative was approved by almost 65% of voters . Since then, more than 70,000 more Alaskans registered to vote between October of 2016 and January of 2021. “I keep being told this is the will of the people. But a third of the people didn’t want it. And why didn’t they want it? Because they did not want to be automatically registered to vote to get their PFD.” Shower filed a similar bill in 2019, which would have repealed the initiative. This year, his staff asked people on social media what they thought of the automatic voter registration.