According to the latest vote tally by Alaska’s Division of Elections, the ballot measure aimed at repealing ranked-choice voting is now trailing by 192 votes.
Posted Nov. 18, the latest election update showed Ballot Measure 2 failing by a count of 157,124 to 156,932.
On election day, Nov. 5, Ballot Measure 2, which aims to repeal ranked-choice voting and return Alaska to its traditional party primaries and election system, was winninig by a margin of 50.9% to 49%. Since then, the “no” votes have steadily gained ground as election officials have slowly tabulated votes that arrive via the mail.
Absentee and mail-in ballots that were postmarked as of Nov. 5 have until Nov. 20 to arrive for tabulation. It’s unclear exactly how many more votes may turn up by that deadline.
The lastest update included nearly 4,000 votes. There are roughly 5,000 left to tally, according to previous statements by election officials.
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How do other voters feel that show up on election day and vote and then as time and days drift by, all these mysterious mail in votyes arrive to change the original outcome? Please chjime in.
Disgusted.
looks like the infamous 113000 stolen identies have just mysteriously showed up in favor of keeping rcv! I BELIEVE THAT PEACEABLE TIMES IN ALASKA ARE COMING TO AN END
This is just outrageous…
Alaskans want RCV gone. Get rid of it. The lies pumped by the proponents are blatant. They know that voters in general do not pay close enough attention and the have played on that. Just disgusting what things have become.
It seems like that no votes should even start to be counted until after all votes that are eligible to be counted have been received by the Division of Elections where all legal votes are to be counted.
We need an audit. Not just a recount. Rep. Sarah Vance requested as such to the DOE today. This is outrageous.
We need an audit. Not just a recount. Rep. Sarah Vance requested as such to the DOE today.
Audit mandatory.