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More than two weeks after polls closed, it's official: By the narrowest of margins, Alaska will keep its ranked choice voting (RCV) system. In 2020, Alaskan voters passed Ballot Measure 2, which ...
Opponents of Alaska’s ranked-choice system are renewing their efforts to overhaul the voting method ahead of 2026 after an effort to undo the system narrowly failed last month. Two groups ...
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 [1] [2]If enacted, it would have repealed Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to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.
Ranked choice supports a kind of genuine populism, where it pays to vote the way that most of your voters want you to vote most of the time. The current party-based primary system instead ...
The proposal switched Alaska's primary system to a non-partisan blanket primary. The top four candidates progress to the general election, which is conducted with ranked-choice voting. Voting for U.S. president will continue to utilize primaries based on political party, but ranked-choice voting will still be used in the general election.
In 2024, Alaskans voted on a measure to repeal the ranked-choice voting system and return to partisan primaries. [46] Following an extended vote count, the measure narrowly failed by a margin of 737 votes, keeping the ranked-choice voting system in place. [47] [48]
In Alaska, a move to repeal the ranked choice system was virtually tied with support for it in early results. Alaska voters had approved ranked choice in 2020, but Republicans led an effort to ...
Backers of a measure aimed at repealing Alaska's ranked choice voting system scored an early, partial win in court when a judge ruled that state elections officials did not violate the law or ...