Recount reaffirms Alaska voters’ retention of ranked choice voting and open primaries

Recount reaffirms Alaska voters’ retention of ranked choice voting and open primaries

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An election recount this week confirmed the narrow defeat of a ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries in Alaska. Read more...

Alaska and Ranked-Choice Voting: It's Over—for Now

the presidential contest, one of the big issues in the 2024 elections was ranked-choice voting (RCV.) It failed almost everywhere it was tried. But here in the Great Land, RCV was put in place by ballot in 2020, and while a repeal made it onto the 2024 ballot, that measure narrowly failed by a…

Alaska kept its Final-Four Voting reforms. Another push is planned in Wisconsin. - The Badger Project

Proponents of Final-Four or Five Voting, which puts candidates from all parties on one "jungle primary" ballot and enacts ranked-choice voting in the general, argue it promotes political compromise and civility.

“The recount is over. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting.”

Alaska Public Media: Election officials finished recounting the results of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, and the outcome remains unchanged. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting and open primaries. The repeal effort failed by 743 votes, or about a… Continue reading The post “The recount is over. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting.” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Recount done: No change in ranked-choice voting, and Elexie Moore still winner in District 28

The Alaska Division of Elections finished the recount of Ballot Measure 2, and just six votes were changed, not nearly enough to alter the overall outcome. The attempt to repeal ranked-choice voting has failed by a margin of 743 votes. Part of the recount, which was done by sending the ballots through the Dominion scanners […] The post Recount done: No change in ranked-choice voting, and Elexie Moore still winner in District 28 appeared first on…

The recount is over. Alaska will keep ranked choice voting.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, right, and state House candidate Steve Menard look on as Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher, foreground, decides how ambiguously-marked ballots should be counted during a recount at the Division of Elections’ headquarters in Juneau on Dec. 9, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Election officials finished recounting the results of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, and the outcome remains unchanged. Alaska will ke…