Your memory serves you well.  I and several other Alaskans attempted to place a voter initiative on the ballot to end the use of DST.  We were well received and did gather thousands of signatures but lacked the funds to overcome the obstacles placed by the Legislature.  Unless you have a organization in place state wide or can spend big money to  hire folks to travel to collect signatures you will simply run out of time within the year allotted. You effectively have only one  summer season to get this done.   They won't allow online signatures (but they will allow you to apply for a PFD check online). They won't allow LIO offices to collect signatures (which seems like a perfect mission for an LIO). Each signature booklet requires  a complex validation process that must be perfectly executed or every signature in that booklet is invalid.  It is rigged system and the legislative process won't work because money can purchase a committee hold on any bill to kill it.  That is the reality.