A ballot measure that would repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting and open primary system has very narrowly failed, according to final unofficial results released Wednesday by the Division of Elections.
The final margin for Ballot Measure 2, pending certification, is 664 out of 340,110 votes, with “No” outpacing “Yes” 50.1% to 49.9%.
The wording isn’t exactly clear, but it doesn’t say what you think it does. Alaska approved ranked choice voting and open primaries in 2020. Leman was part of Yes on 2 which was an effort to repeal RCV and go back to closed primaries. Outside groups helped fund the opposition campaign to say no to the repeal. The group trying to enact the repeal raised very little funding. So what he said isn’t contradicted by the numbers presented.
I’m dissapointed that there seems to be so much impetus to go back to first past the post in Alaska. That might slow down efforts elsewhere in pushing for RCV.
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The wording isn’t exactly clear, but it doesn’t say what you think it does. Alaska approved ranked choice voting and open primaries in 2020. Leman was part of Yes on 2 which was an effort to repeal RCV and go back to closed primaries. Outside groups helped fund the opposition campaign to say no to the repeal. The group trying to enact the repeal raised very little funding. So what he said isn’t contradicted by the numbers presented.
I’m dissapointed that there seems to be so much impetus to go back to first past the post in Alaska. That might slow down efforts elsewhere in pushing for RCV.
Yeah looks like I misread it. I deleted the comment so no one else gets misled by me.