Alaska will be only the second state to use ranked choice voting for all voters in a federal election, after Maine, which first implemented the method in 2018 for congressional races.

The filing deadline for the 2026 elections is still nearly a year away. But Democrats in Alaska and Outside are anxiously ...

Because Alaska’s top-four primary election doesn’t apply to the presidential race, voters will be able to rank all eight options if they choose to do so. Search Query Show Search.

It’s Alaska’s first general election under the state’s new ranked choice voting system. Already, thousands of Alaskans have cast their ballots. Polls close Tuesday at 8 p.m.

In the following months, the DOJ has followed up with a series of letters and requests to around a dozen states, including battleground states Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

Alaska political consultants say primary voters are typically more partisan than those at a general election, meaning Tuesday’s results may not be an indicator of electoral success in November.

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And that is how Alaska became the location of 2022′s most chaotic exercise in procedural democracy. A special election is happening now, almost entirely by mail, to fill the final four months of ...

Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, ...

Alaska’s new election system featuring open primaries and a top-four ranked-choice general election is a model for the rest of the country, Kendall and Medicine Crow write.

Alaska voters adopted a new election system via ballot measure in 2020. Alaska had to speed up use of the system after the death of Rep. Don Young.