Alaska Ballot 2 to repeal top 4 ranked choice voting and open primaries has a 1.6% lead with 70% of the vote in. Yes - 125,489 - 50.8% No - 121,367 - 49.2% Alaska Election Results 2024: Live Updates : NPR An estimated 109,000 votes remain to be counted. This was discussed quite a bit after the 2022 midterms to try to bring ranked choice voting to the lower 48. I hope it never gets off the ground. In 2022, top 4 ranked choice voting pitted 2 republicans, Nick Begich and Sarah Palin, against 1 democrat, Mary Peltola. Neither republican would withdraw so ranked choice sent the democrat to the US House for 2 years as Begich and Palin had a split republican vote. While it will take Alaska a while to wade through the ranked choice voting BS, Alaska will likely send Begich to the US House this year. Sarah Palin did not run in 2024. I think Peltola was the only democrat to ever represent Alaska. It'll be a house pick up for the republicans, not that it should ever have been a democrat seat. I also like that ballot 2 will end open primaries in Alaska. I don't like voters of other parties crossing over to try to screw up the other party primary.
Closed primaries and gerrymandering are two of the biggest systemic contributors to parties becoming more extreme.
