In the Alaska House district with chronic low voter turnout and high resident turnover, how do legislative candidates connect with voters?
Democrat Cliff Groh and Republican Dan Sager are trying to answer that question in the race to represent House District 18.
The vast majority of the territory in the district spans Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, or JBER, and more than half of the voters are listed as base residents. Federal law prohibits campaigning on military bases, so Groh and Sager are using phone calls, texts and online communications to try to reach them…