Ballot Measure 2, would mandate more transparency about who’s funding independent spending groups that operate in Alaska’s elections — but its two most ambitious provisions target the election process itself.
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Trailing by 14 votes, Coghill asks for recount
By law, the state will pay for a recount if the difference between candidates is 20 votes or fewer — or less than 0.5% of the total votes cast.
Longtime state Senator John Coghill loses Republican primary
The Alaska Division of Elections said the unofficial results include all ballots, including absentees.
Alaska primary results solidify heading into end of vote counting
In all but a few races, it would take hundreds of ballots that hadn’t previously been announced to change results.
2 primary races flip, but several incumbent Republicans now face steeper odds
Current vote counts are unofficial, but Senate President Cathy Giessel and the five trailing House incumbents would need dramatic changes in the remaining votes to win.
Conservative candidates won Alaskans’ votes Tuesday with big PFD promises. Now comes the hard part: delivering.
Duplantis and other Republican challengers focused their campaigns on the larger dividend payments — not on the deep budget cuts that would almost certainly have to come with them.