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Because Alaska’s top-four primary election doesn’t apply to the presidential race, voters will be able to rank all eight options if they choose to do so. Search Query Show Search.
Alaska will be only the second state to use ranked choice voting for all voters in a federal election, after Maine, which first implemented the method in 2018 for congressional races.
It’s Alaska’s first general election under the state’s new ranked choice voting system. Already, thousands of Alaskans have cast their ballots. Polls close Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Election worker Cyrenthia Newton, right, directs Emma Bolin toward the voting booths during early and absentee voting for the upcoming primary election at the Alaska Division of Elections office ...
The filing deadline for the 2026 elections is still nearly a year away. But Democrats in Alaska and Outside are anxiously ...
Alaska's three electoral votes have gone to the Republican nominee every election except 1964, when Alaskans chose Lyndon B. Johnson over Barry Goldwater. Trump won Alaska with more than 51% of ...
Voters in Alaska on Tuesday are voting in two separate elections for the same US House seat – the state’s at-large congressional district seat.
As the clock ticks towards the end of Alaska’s legislative session, a bipartisan elections reform bill that the state Senate State Affairs Committee advanced has run into significant obstacles.
Nov. 19—Many Alaskans are wondering: Why are election workers still counting ballots two weeks after Election Day? Alaska's generous absentee voting laws are not new. For years, the state has ...
Alaska’s local elections have no more than four listed candidates, but the presidential election has eight, which makes it possible that an official winner won’t be declared until Nov. 20.
Deborah Moody, an administrative clerk at the Alaska Division of Elections office in Anchorage, Alaska, looks at an oversized booklet explaining election changes in the state on Jan. 21, 2022.