Following weeks of counting votes, Alaska election officials determined on Wednesday that a ballot initiative seeking to repeal the state’s ranked-choice voting (RCV) system was narrowly defeated by 664 votes. The result comes after millions in out-of-state dark money flooded Alaska to defeat the measure.
According to The New York Times, unofficial results show Ballot Measure 2 receiving 160,619 “no” votes and 159,955 “yes” votes (50.1 to 49.9 percent). The measure was approved for ballot access earlier this year following a lengthy legal battle and sought to repeal Alaska’s top-four RCV system, which voters narrowly adopted in the 2020 general election.
Under ranked-choice voting, electors rank candidates of all parties in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the…
