Repeal sponsor Art Mathias, a longtime Anchorage resident and founder of Wellsprings Ministries, told supporters that ranked choice puts the entire country at risk.
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Alaska’s new elections director, a Trump donor, stays quiet on 2020 election fairness nationally
Carol Beecher doesn’t have elections experience, but Lt. Gov. Dahlstrom cites her administrative background, impartiality as reasons for the pick
Signature drive begins for ballot measure to end ranked choice voting in Alaska
The group will have a year to collect nearly 27,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot in 2024.
Alaska House majority forms to the right of the Senate’s
Despite uncertainty going in, both chambers have elected leaders and determined their committee assignments.
Alaska elections chief, never one for drama, makes an orderly exit after a big year
After 32 years of state service, Gail Fenumiai has left her post as director of the Division of Elections.
‘Pins and needles’: Alaska legislative candidates in close races wait out election results
Ranked choice voting has changed how candidates campaign, and how Alaskans vote. It’s also changed the pace of the election cycle.
Palin and Tshibaka are on track to lose but hint at election battles ahead
Palin called Alaska’s ranked choice voting system “unAmerican” and cast blame on fellow Republicans for splitting the vote.
Why partisan hardliners likely won’t fare well under Alaska’s new election system
Political consultant Jim Lottsfeldt says that in general, candidates who better align with the political center will appeal to more voters than candidates in lockstep with either partisan base.
After special election loss to Peltola, Palin and Begich both say ‘rank the red’
The friction between the two candidates is barely concealed, and sometimes not at all.
Why Alaska uses ranked choice voting and what we know about how it affects elections
Most people who used ranked choice voting for the first time this August thought the process was simple, but many still had questions about why we have it in the first place.