Four years after about 51% of Alaskans voted to adopt a new election system and two years after the new system debuted,
Campaign buttons urging Alaskans to repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska sit on a picnic table at the home of Phil Izon, a backer of the initiative, in Wasilla, Alaska, on May 14, 2014. Alaskans voted in 2022 to change the state’s election system. Now, local political group Alaskans for Honest Elections is leading efforts to repeal the new system and revert to the old one.
A measure that aims to repeal Alaska’s system, which was first used in 2022 and includes open primaries and ranked-choice voting, will appear on the November ballot if it survives a legal challenge. Here’s what to know about how Alaska’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system has worked so far, who’s behind the repeal efforts and why part of the argument against the new system doesn’t add up.The four candidates in each race with the most votes advance to the general election.
If no candidate meets that threshold, the counting extends to additional rounds. The candidate with the fewest first-choice votes in round one is eliminated. Voters who ranked the now-eliminated candidate first will have their votes reallocated to their second-choice candidate. This vote redistribution process continues until one candidate exceeds 50% of the vote.showed about 62% of voters were registered as"nonpartisan,""undeclared" or with a minor political party.
Izon, who runs the political group with his wife, Diamond Metzner, and Anchorage resident and minister Art Mathias, described it as a"grassroots" group that isn’t connected to political parties or out-of-state nonprofit groups.show most of Alaskans for Honest Elections’ funds have come from Izon and Mathias, and another group they created called the, which exceeds the 26,705-signature threshold needed for approval. Former Alaska Gov.
After the 2022 special general election’s first round of voting, Republican Nick Begich received the fewest first-choice votes and was eliminated. Of the 53,810 voters who ranked Begich first, 27,053 of them ranked Republican Palin second and 15,467 more ranked Democrat Mary Peltola second. The Palin and Peltola votes were reallocated after Begich was eliminated, and Peltola was declared the winner with 51.48% of the vote.
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