Ballot Measure 2, the effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting and open primaries, was winning slightly as election results continued to come in early Wednesday, with about 97% of Alaska precincts counted.

This measure would eliminate the top-four primary system and ranked-choice voting in general elections.

Alaska and Maine already use ranked-choice voting, which supporters say could lead to more moderate politics. But it has been rejected in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.

Ballot Measure 2, the effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting and open primaries, was winning slightly as election results continued to come in early Nov. 6, with about 93% of Alaska precincts counted.

More Alaskans voted to repeal the state’s open primary and ranked choice voting system than voted against the measure, among the roughly 70% of the votes counted through early Wednesday. There were 120,

With more than 100,000 ballots counted, 50.5% of votes were in favor of a ballot measure to repeal Alaska’s voting system.

Initiatives related to ranked choice voting) in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight statesandelectoralsystemballotmeasures,2024) and the District of Columbia. On the ballots were also an initiative that would repeal ranked choice voting (RCV) and restore plurality elections in Alaska,