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As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alaska.
A ballot measure was approved by voters which would increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2027 and expand sick paid leave. The minimum wage in Alaska at the time of the election was $11.73 an hour, an inflation-adjusted amount of the $9.75 an hour minimum wage enacted after the passage of the 2014 Ballot Measure 3. [10] [11] [12]
As of September 2024, six ballot measures have been certified to appear on the 2024 general election ballot: Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 1, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents (similar language as State Question 1 in 2022); [169]
Alaska Ballot Measure 2 was a ballot initiative that was voted on in the November 5, 2024, general election. The ballot measure narrowly failed to pass. [1] [2]If enacted, it would have repealed Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting.
Among the earliest is Pennsylvania, where applications for mail-in ballots (which can be requested and submitted in-person during a single visit to an election office) were supposed to begin being ...
See live updates of Alaska election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
In 2020, Alaska became the second state in the nation to adopt a ranked-choice voting system when Ballot Measure 2 passed by less than 4,000 votes. [6] Implementation of this system was postponed while state courts processed several legal challenges, but the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the measure in January 2022. [ 7 ]
Here’s how it's shaking out in the 2024 election. ... Ranked-choice voting is a system where voters rank candidates on their ballots. This means you vote for your first-choice candidate as well ...