Why does Alaska use ranked choice voting? Alaskans passed Ballot Measure 2 in 2020, which shifted the state to the new voting system. It passed narrowly, with a total of 50.55% of the vote, a ...

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 Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

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 on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

How ranked-choice voting will work for the U.S. Senate race in Alaska In Alaska’s U.S. Senate primary Aug. 16, voters will each choose one candidate among more than one dozen.

More than two weeks after polls closed, it's official: By the narrowest of margins, Alaska will keep its ranked choice voting ...

This was Alaska’s first general election using ranked choice voting, and it also made the state one of the first major jurisdictions in the United States to employ the new voting system.

By a slim margin in 2020, Alaskans voted by ballot initiative to adopt ranked choice voting. Tuesday, Aug. 16, marked the first use of ranked choice voting for Alaska’s special election for the ...

In Alaska and Maine, currently the only states that will use ranked choice voting next year in 2024, even if there's a third-party challenger, Otis says voters will be able to just vote for who ...

Ranked choice voting, used in Alaska primaries, involves selecting the favored candidates in order of preference, and proponents say it makes elections more accurate to voters' wishes.

Alaska is using ranked choice voting to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Rep. Don Young. The election that Peltola won was a special election to serve out the remainder of Young’s ...

Alaska has several unique characteristics that led our legislature and election office to adopt laws and rules that provide for a 15-day, post-election vote counting period: ...

Alaska Keeps Ranked Choice Voting by Razor-Thin Margin With 50.1 percent of the final tally, Alaskans voted to preserve a system that allows voters more choice in how they vote, and who they vote for.