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.
mail in voting in Alaska is a policy, never legalized by the legislation action. part of 2016 vote? check it out. its supposed to be election day not season. shows who’s in power here in Alaska. everything about counting votes by mail after election day is clearly fraudulent
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
Who are you going to target? How much will you vet your victims? What weapons do you favor?
Jim, why are you inciting violence?
This is corruption. Who the heck wanted to keep RCV? There should be a serious forensic investigation. This was drug out until they could produce ballots for people who likely never went to the polls.
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.
Well, there is literally no reason to vote in Alaska anymore. The leftists have won. This state is doomed becuase the residents are more concerned with smoking weed and getting their free money than safeguarding their rights.
Repeal the 19th.
correct Bob! 69% vote this time. 2% next time. I wonder why!????
We need an audit. Not just a recount. Rep. Sarah Vance requested as such to the DOE today. This is outrageous.
You sound like Kari Lake.
We need an audit. Not just a recount. Rep. Sarah Vance requested as such to the DOE today.
Something seems fishy. Exactly what happened when they instituted RCV in 2000.
Audit mandatory.
Get your terms correct: we need a FORENSIC audit.
Unbelievable. No, literally, unbelievable. This looks like fraud to me. Murkowski, how did you do this?
We need a forensic audit asap.
we need to coax dunleavy out from underneath the skirts of damboski, downing, allard,or murkowski! HES HIDING UNDER THERE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE BUCKBUT STOPS WITH HIM!
The numbers just don’t add up..We need a forensic audit and recount when it’s all over
The longer it take the more opportunity there is for her to cheat … are you listening Lisa?
A forensic or any other type of audit is not possible if DOE has in fact separated the mailed in ballot from its associated enevelope and has not saved an image of the two together. No voting system is more suseptible to fraud than MAIL IN VOTING. The necessary two party control is lost at the mailbox.
Alaska voters should demand a Federal Investigation on our state’s elections.
Federal investigation? Kinda like they did with the j6ers?
Who’s ready to pick up the baton and start collecting signatures for the same ballot measure as soon as possible?
I am. Already signed up.
MR TRUMP IF YOUR LISTENING AND PAYING ATTENTION TO ALASKA AND OUR INSURMOUNTABLE CORRUPTION! PLEASE PLACE MIKE DUNLEAVY AND NANCY DALHSTROM IN JAIL IN KEEPING WITH YOUR PROMISE TO INCARCERATE ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF ELECTION FRAUD!
I agree 100 %.
This is beyond criminal. They’ve played this out so long thinking we wouldn’t be paying attention. Something has to be done about this steal. And if they steal the win from Begich , I think we will see fireworks in our state.
Donald Trump: Alaska is not a swing state but, though we be far distant from DC, we are part of the United States. You, Donald Trump owe us as much consideration as Pennsylvania. Please launch an investigation of election fraud here inaska
Alaska’s mail-in ballot system was established through a voter-approved ballot measure in 2016, allowing automatic voter registration when individuals apply for a Permanent Fund Dividend, unless they opt-out ¹. This measure also made Alaska a “no-excuse” voting state, permitting anyone to apply for absentee/by-mail voting without needing to provide a reason.
The Alaska Constitution requires legislative approval for changes to election administration, but the voter-approved ballot measure enabled the implementation of mail-in ballots without legislative action.
*Key Aspects of Alaska’s Mail-in Ballot System*
– *Eligibility*: Any registered voter can apply for absentee/by-mail voting
– *Application Deadline*: 10 days before an election for already registered voters, 30 days before for new registrations or updates
– *Return Methods*: Mail or in-person at designated locations
– *Signature Requirements*: Voter’s handwritten signature and witness signature (or notary public)
If you’re interested in learning more about Alaska’s election administration or legislation, you can visit the Division of Elections or Alaska Legislature websites.
So mail in ballots is a policy and not actually ever approved by state legislation?
The fact that it takes so long to finalize elections is the greatest argument against RCV.
I wonder how that happened. Why does it feel like Alaska is as corrupt and cheating as Georgia and Arizona was last election! Oh because it is!! If rigged choice voting wins, we as Alaskans need to find out how. Boxes of unmarked ballots from under the table? Muckowski paying off her bed mates. Rigged choice voting is the baby of that cheater-turncoat Rino. Away with it and her.
More election fraud!!! Let’s not be naive Alaska.