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Alaska to keep its election system, early results show
Anchorage Daily News ^ | 11/4/2026 | Iris Samuels

Posted on 11/04/2026 6:43:08 PM PST by Redmen4ever

Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2, which would repeal the state’s election laws, is on track to narrowly fail, as of votes counted Wednesday afternoon.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; rankedchoice

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For ending rank choice: 48% Against: 52%. with 99% of the votes counted.
1 posted on 11/04/2026 6:43:08 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

The rats have learned how to make sure the republicans never win.


2 posted on 11/04/2026 6:45:14 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Redmen4ever

For f’s sake the news gets worse and worse.


3 posted on 11/04/2026 6:55:52 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

Yep


4 posted on 11/04/2026 7:07:09 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: gibsonguy

This is the second time repeal has failed


5 posted on 11/04/2026 7:20:41 PM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Redmen4ever

FReepers need to understand that Alaska is a purple and rapidly turning blue state. We are full of welfare queens of all stripes.


6 posted on 11/04/2026 7:23:20 PM PST by vpintheak (The left is violence.)
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If they’d vote for th7s, why does Alaska have RCV?

Or Maine...

Or NYC...


7 posted on 11/04/2026 7:30:49 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Redmen4ever

Again?!?!?!? The same thing happened in the previous election cycle.


8 posted on 11/04/2026 8:02:59 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Redmen4ever

The bill had a poison pill in it. Relese of all limitations on campaign donations.


9 posted on 11/04/2026 9:31:21 PM PST by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: Redmen4ever

This was a blue wave. Better luck next time.


10 posted on 11/04/2026 9:49:50 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: vpintheak

Without oil all Alaska is is fishing and drunk natives on welfare.


11 posted on 11/04/2026 10:03:04 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Redmen4ever

“For ending rank choice: 48% Against: 52%. with 99% of the votes counted.”
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Ranked choice will soon be the voting method used by most of the states. Multiple elections cost a lot of money, and ranked choice prevents those. It also gives voters a final outcome without multiple more weeks of electioneering.


12 posted on 11/04/2026 11:30:37 PM PST by Bob Wills is still the king (Wake up and smell the coffee!)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

It steals your vote


13 posted on 11/04/2026 11:39:10 PM PST by antceecee ( )
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