By AlaskaWatchman.com

The monumental effort to repeal Alaska’s highly controversial and confusing ranked-choice voting system remain on track to pass by the narrowest of margins after the Division of Elections most recent vote update.

As of Nov. 15, Alaska Division of Elections had counted all 402 political precincts throughout the state.

The “yes” votes to pass Ballot Measure 2 still hold a slim 2,425 lead after the Division of Elections counted another batch of early, questioned and absentee votes on Nov. 14. There will be more updates in the coming days.

A successful repeal effort would mean Alaska returns to its traditional party primaries and its historic election system.

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UPDATE: Ranked Choice repeal remains on track to pass

Joel Davidson
Joel is Editor-in-Chief of the Alaska Watchman. Joel is an award winning journalist and has been reporting for over 24 years, He is a proud father of 8 children, and lives in Palmer, Alaska.


23 Comments

  • Diana says:

    The precincts are Excursion Inlet and Pelican votes that entered manuallu. They were entered wrong so its a mess. Dahlstrom is a slow learner and not efficient.

  • Tommy says:

    You’re confusing two seperate reforms that were put together. Ranked Choice Voting is not the same thing as open primaries. Ranked Choice Voting is simply a form a of instant run-off voting which fixes the spoiler problem so that the final candidate will have a majority of the votes when their are multiple candidates spliting the votes. If you have a Libertarian Party candidate in the race they’re more likely to take votes away from the Republican in a plurality election which the instant run-off is supposed to solve. Open primaries are a completely seperate reform that shouldn’t have been paired with ranked choice voting.

    • Penny Johnson says:

      The design of RCV ensures that a.) lesser parties will get in on the top four, b.) lesser parties will wash out with each successive ranking. Your statement is an obvious fallacy.

  • Debi Kirchner says:

    Why are there not any new numbers up yet? This is getting ridiculous.

  • Elizabeth Henry says:

    I still question whether that many people wanted to keep RCV. Albeit at this point I am just happy to soon be rid of it. Our state elections are still a mess and it is unacceptable we are one of the last states in the nation to complete our counts yet we are one of the smallest populations.

  • Erik A. Nilsen says:

    Bye bye Ranked Choice Voting. You won’t be missed at all.

  • MeMe says:

    From Phil Izon: Our next project in Alaska is to Remove All Electronic Voting Systems via Ballot Measure. Let’s end Dominion’s Dominion over Alaska Sign Up on the website 907honest.com

    • Penny Johnson says:

      I’m signed up. The network & structure of the repeal RCV campaign is still there. It’s a matter of getting it thru the Lt. Gov/elections office by petition. Dahlstrom, Lt. Gov. is the Liz Cheney of Alaska. Dahlstrom will get Mediocre Mike’s seat if he’s appointed to the Trump cabinet. That will be the end of Alaska as a Republican stronghold.

    • Karma says:

      No machines!

  • Friend of Humanity says:

    The ballot measures were not ranked choice voting – they were yes/no measures. We should have had these results way before this. The fact that the state has allowed these rogue precincts to not call in their results on election night should have nullified the votes for those precincts. We should do our entire election over using paper ballots and hand counting with results that night.

  • Jim says:

    I would not be at all surprised if prop 2 just *barely* fails after the final “count.”

    • Friend of Humanity says:

      Yep, just like last time! Just barely failed. It was passing until all of the after-election day ballots were counted. Just like this election. Well, I hope that President Trump keeps his promise and holds all of the cheaters accountable…including ex-Lt. Gov. Meyer and current Lt. Gov. Dahlstrom. Those two have destroyed our election system.

  • Davesmaxwell says:

    dunleavy has just made another announcement! STAY TUNED! that’s all he said! STAY TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNED!

    • Friend of Humanity says:

      I heard that Dunleavy is going to be continuing as governor.

      • Davesmaxwell says:

        the truth is dunleavy arrogantly thought he was a shoe in for sec of the int. THEN THE REALITY STATEMENT CAME THAT GOV Burgum was chosen! GOVERNOR DUNLEAVY IS NOW KNOWN AS A LOSER IN OUR STATE AND IN OUR NATION! THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, AN ACTUAL LEADER!!!

  • Johnny says:

    Good! out with the trash!

    • Pissed off taxpayer says:

      You should be questioning it. Faxed ballots require election workers to hand fill in ballots with what was voted for by the person. No room for cheating there. District 36 which is all the outlying districts. What a joke, no poll workers, nothing reported. Thats where the cheat is gonna come in… whatever they don’t have to win, District 36 will make up the win for the demon party. Mark my words. You try and be a ballot watcher, they will bore you to death, treat you like “trash”, forget to call you back to the viewing room to view the ballot opening process counts and verification process until, the worker are done. It is very apparent in The Fairbanks Office that some really nefarious actors are at work. Most workers are democrats and at this point, no one can be trusted. I believe many races will be challenged.

  • Ronald Keel says:

    Trump has been shown to keep his enemies closer, gotta know how they play. Stay tuned Dunleavy says, why? Another song and dance. As usual voters numbers are not moving, they need to know how many votes they need for the RCV to just barley survive. All BS. Dahlstrom is another one that is very, very suspect. Alaska is more important to our country as a whole, not to mention quite the prize for other countries, than people are aware of. I would suspect that from the 40,000 foot Trump view Alaska has been being watched closely.

  • TS says:

    Ranked choice or Best Guess Voting is total COMMIE B/S!

  • Debi Kirchner says:

    I’m afraid they are stealing the ballot 2 votes to keep it in.

  • Shelia says:

    I wonder why Peltola says she has thousands of votes to be added? I won’t believe who actually wins until all the ballots are counted and the totals posted. And then I still will wonder how many dead people voted, especially if it is dems who were going down to defeat but somehow got elected or re-elected.

    • Davesmaxwell says:

      And who in the hell do you blame FOR this Shelia? YOU NEED TO DECIDE WHO THE HELL YOU SUPPORT! DUNLEAVY IS IN CHARGE,NOT PELTOLA! WOW , BLINDERS LIKE THIS I HAVE NEVER SEEN!

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