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Alaska voters aren't ditching ranked choice voting, top-four primaries
A ballot measure that would have repealed Alaska's nonpartisan primary system and ranked choice voting has failed, according to an overnight race call by the Associated Press.
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This is the second time Alaskans voted down an effort to repeal the state's unique election system, which voters first approved in 2020.
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A repeal effort in 2024 also failed narrowly.
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This year, though, Alaska's system was under intense nationwide scrutiny, due to the inclusion of two candidates with the same name on the four-person U.S. Senate general election ballot.
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That race appears likely to move on to a ranked-choice tabulation.
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"Alaskans of all political stripes have spoken: They want the freedom to vote for any candidate, regardless of party, in every taxpayer-funded election," Nick Troiano — the executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan electoral reform — said in a statement before the AP call.
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"At a time when most general elections across the country are essentially coronations, the Last Frontier is showing that a better way is possible.
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It is time to honor the voters' decision and move forward."
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Just a few states have nonpartisan primary systems that allow voters of all political affiliations to vote on the same primary ballot.
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While California and Washington's systems allow the top two vote getters to advance to the general election, Alaska's system allows the top four candidates to move on.
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Then, if no candidate gets a majority of the general election vote, ranked choice voting is used to determine the winner.
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Opponents of Alaska's elections say the current system is confusing and can be manipulated.
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Those opponents seized on this year's closely watched Senate race, in which an independent candidate named Dan Sullivan was alleged to be a Democratic-backed spoiler recruited to siphon votes that were meant for the Republican incumbent, also named Dan Sullivan.
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Democrats denied recruiting the independent Sullivan, who made the top-four general election ballot and has defended his candidacy.
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However, proponents of Alaska's system have said that the state's ranked choice voting system could blunt the effects of any confusion.
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Voters had the ability to rank both Dan Sullivans and not rank Democrat Mary Peltola, for example.
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Massachusetts voters this year decided not to switch to a top-two nonpartisan primary system.
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And during the last election cycle, in 2024, several states considered measures that would create a nonpartisan system similar to Alaska's.
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Voters rejected all of those ballot measures.
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