Help Us Amplify Alaska’s Success

Use these talking points, social media posts, clips and more to raise awareness and mobilize support for Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

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Please feel free to share the videos and social clips on social media, via email, or in presentations to educate others about RCV and its potential to improve representation.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Casey ([email protected])!

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  • With Ranked Choice Voting, the winner receives a majority–every time. It’s easy, it’s fair, and it’s proven to result in better representation. But don’t take our word for it- watch this:
  • Ranked Choice Voting is working in Alaska, and we know it will here:
  • Mary Peltola made history in 2022 by becoming the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, beating 22 other candidates including Sarah Palin AND Santa Claus– all with the help of #RankedChoiceVoting. 💪📊
  • Learn more about the remarkable ways Alaska is moving forward with #RCV: [link to landing page]
  • Cathy Giessel and Matt Claman understand the importance of Ranked Choice Voting in tackling partisanship. They teamed up to establish the only formal bipartisan coalition in a state legislature in the nation!! 😮👏
  • Alaskan politics have changed for the better since they adopted Ranked Choice Voting, Final Four Voting, and Open Primaries. It’s meant that the voters have more of a voice and the winner receives a majority–every time.

Why did we make this toolkit?

As dissatisfaction with the two-party system reaches a high, more voters and legislators are turning to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) as an alternative. Last year, most state legislatures considered at least one bill or resolution on RCV, and Oregon’s successful HB 2004 marked only the third time a state legislature (rather than the public through a ballot initiative) has passed a law that could bring RCV to state or federal elections.

Ranked choice voting is now firmly on the national agenda. And voters who try it overwhelmingly love it:

  • Alaska: 85% said RCV is simple. 62% supported Alaska’s new primary system (2023).
  • Maine: 61% supported keeping or expanding RCV (2018).
  • Boulder, CO: 86% said it was easy. 77% were satisfied with their voting experience. (2023).
  • Virginia Republicans: 56% who voted in primaries using RCV preferred it to single-choice elections (2022).
  • 20 Utah Cities: 86% were satisfied with their voting experience. 81% found RCV eas. (2021).
  • Minneapolis, MN: 88% of voters found RCV simple. 76% wanted to continue using RCV (2021).
  • New York City: 95% found their ballot simple to complete. 77% supported using RCV in future local elections (2021).
  • Payson and Vineyard, UT: 82% wanted to use RCV again (2019).
  • Eastpointe, MI: 85% found RCV simple. 70% wanted to keep using it (2019).
  • Santa Fe, NM: 94% were very or somewhat satisfied with RCV. 71% supported RCV in future elections (2018).
  • San Francisco, CA: 86% understood RCV well during its first use. 61% preferred RCV over the prior method (2004).
  • Arlington, VA: 70% found their experience with RCV positive or fair. 56% wanted to use RCV again (This was an unscientific survey) (2023).

Credit to our friends at FairVote for the wonderful RCV exit survey data.

92% of Alaskans reported receiving instructions on how to rank their choices; 79% of Alaskans reported RCV to be “simple”; 60% say Alaska’s state and local elections were more competitive compared to previous years.

Once people learn about RCV, they usually understand it quite easily and prefer it to the current system. But how do we get more people on board? RepresentUs has found that messaging and media relations efforts are necessary to educate and build support among those who don’t know much about RCV yet. That’s why we created a mini video series to educate voters on the positive impact of RCV as seen in Alaska, the first state to adopt the measure in 2022, in addition to Open Primaries and Final Four Voting. We hope these videos will be useful to you and serve as inspiring case studies for how RCV can lead to more choices, more civility, better representation, and historic change that is entirely possible to replicate across the country.

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