Alaska’s new ranked choice voting system survives legal challenge
After a particularly uninspired showing at the oral arguments, an attempt to overturn the slate of election reforms has come up far short.
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GOP’s seditious election fever dream makes Alaska’s election reform look even better
Ballot Measure 2 is aimed at empowering Alaska’s moderates and wrenching control of the state’s elections from political parties, specifically a Republican party that has placed party purity, power and Trump over everything.
Don’t expect legislators to take up election reform or oil taxes if the initiatives are defeated
The opponents won’t come running with a legislative solution if either measure is dealt a loss. Instead, we’d expect them to point to the results and claim the people have spoken.
Group opposing election reform initiative must fix ‘wildly’ inaccurate ads, APOC orders
“This scheme to deceive voters disgusts me, as It should disgust all Alaskans.”
Group opposing election reform says it found one weird trick to hide big-money contributions from voters
APOC Commissioners aren’t so sure.
Polling shows strong support for election reform initiative Ballot Measure 2
Overall, it shows the measure has the support of 59% of voters while 17% of voters oppose the measure and 24% are undecided.
League of Women Voters of Alaska endorses Ballot Measure 2
The endorsement was celebrated by Yes on 2 for Better Elections, the group backing the measure, which released a statement praising the League of Women Voters as “the gold standard for electoral policies.”
Second complaint alleges Defend Alaska’s Elections violated election law
Even the group’s original disclosure–which claimed Sturgeon, Begich and Parnell were its top backers–was wrong, the complaint charges.
Open primaries would encourage ‘thoughtful leadership,’ say backers of Ballot Measure 2
The hope is that candidates will have to broaden their appeal to all voters in a district instead of the relatively small group of voters that participate in primaries.
Complaint accuses group opposing election reform initiative of skirting election law
The complaint says the Alaska Policy Forum, its director and Dunleavy’s former campaign manager have been violating Alaska campaign law for months.