Alaska: Defend Final Four Voting
Campaign Status: Active
The Policy
Defend Final Four Voting – a nonpartisan, all-candidate primary where the top four vote-getters advance + ranked choice voting in the general election
Background
Who’s Involved?
RepresentUs is proud to support local leaders at Alaskans for Better Elections, and the broad coalition of local organizations that have come together to pass and now defend these important reforms.
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The Latest On This Campaign
Alaska Could Reconsider Ranked-choice Voting This Year
Jan 23 2024
In 2020, Alaska residents voted 50.55% to 49.45% to approve a measure adopting open top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting (RCV). This year, the state could give both voting systems another look.
Read MoreAlaska House committee advances legislation to repeal ranked choice voting
Jan 18 2024
The bill has yet to be considered in the Senate and is likely to face headwinds there, where members of the majority have said they oppose efforts to repeal the voting method.
Read MoreAlaska ranked choice voting opponents fined over $94K for campaign ethics violations
Jan 4 2024
Alaska’s campaign ethics commission found that opponents of ranked choice voting violated the state’s campaign ethics laws for months by funneling most of their funding through a tax-exempt church and inaccurately reporting their funding to the state.
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