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As with Alaska’s ranked choice voting system, there is some pushback nationally on open primaries. This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, ...
Alaska voters in 2020 approved an overhaul of the state’s elections system, moving to a ranked-choice voting system. The special election for Alaska’s lone House seat is the first time the new ...
We applaud Alaska’s citizens for approving the innovative ballot initiative that created Alaska’s Final Four voting system. We salute Alaskans for boldly deciding to change their election system.
For the first time since 1972, Alaska is sending a Democrat to occupy its only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives through a new ranked voting ballot, the state's division of elections ...
Unite America, a Colorado-based group that supports ranked choice voting initiatives across the U.S., has donated $2.075 million in support of keeping the voting system in Alaska.
But Alaska’s new voting system also played a big role in Ms. Peltola’s three-percentage-point victory over former Gov. Sarah Palin, her Republican opponent. Ms. Peltola, ...
Like Alaska, our current election system is truly nonpartisan, and since ranked choice voting elects candidates whom the majority of the voters support, they are truly democratically elected.
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 voters in 2020 approved the switch to open primaries and having ranked voting in general elections. Alaskans for Better Elections was behind that successful push.
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 voters adopted a ranked-choice system to make it harder for extremists to win simply by appealing to the hard-liners in their party's base. And it's working.
Alaska voters in 2020 approved an overhaul of the state's elections system, moving to a ranked-choice voting system. The special election for Alaska's lone House seat is the first time the new ...