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...

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

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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

Alaska will keep ranked-choice voting and open primaries after state election officials finished recounting Ballot Measure results on Monday.

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Ranked choice voting upheld following recount

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.

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

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.

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

The Alaska Division of Elections completed the recount of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, confirming the initiative’s narrow defeat in the Nov. 5 election. Out of more than 341,000 votes cast, the 737-vote margin of defeat certified on Nov. 30 changed by just six votes, widening the margin to 743. The certified margin was well within the 0.5% required for a state-funded recount, which the Alaska Republican Party requested.   The results mean that th…

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

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