Today, November 5, Repeal Now make a special delivery to the Division of Elections on behalf of Alaskans taking a stand against ranked-choice voting. Although initiative sponsors only needed to gather a minimum of 34,098 signatures, the number of signatures delivered to DOE exceed 48,000. This means approximately 12-13% of registered voters want Alaskans to reconsider rank-choice voting in the 2026 election.
Alaska is one of two states that operates rank-choice voting for state-wide elections. Maine was the first to implement the new voting mechanism in 2018. Alaska followed suit in 2020. 12 additional states plus the District of Columbia have authorized the use of RCV for specific types of elections, but not for state elections.
48,000 Alaskans believe removing RCV and returning to a straightforward voting system will improve election integrity, increase voters’ trust, and improve our great state. What do you think? Let us know if you agree or disagree in the comments below.
YES!!! I am in agreement. I am in SE, Sitka to be specific, and I have been against RCV from the beginning. I tried to get it defeated both times it was voted on! In fact, I distrust that it passed at all, because there are A LOT of non-liberal true American Patriots here, who believe in the US and in the Constitution. The amount of dark money pouring into this state to bad-mouth and propagandize traditional election methods is breath-taking. I personally spoke to to many people showing them the lies and deceit, and it barely passed both times. FOLLOW THE MONEY if you want to know who is behind this.
If you want to see RCV deposited in the waste bin of failed ideas, send some money to Repeal Now. There are filing requirements that YOU have to address when you make that donation, but it’s not onerous and the folks there can help you through it. I’ve given my signature and much hard earned coin.
One vote per office, per registered voter, in person with an ID, hand counted is the ONLY way to ensure voting integrity. RCV with electronic processed mail in ballots should not be legal in any state including Alaska!
Agree! Dump it and return to normal
Agreed
Ranked-choice voting is leftist corruption. Repeal this lothsom voting system. 🇺🇸
You are right. It is the result of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. She is the problem that it may eventually fix if it goes through. But, for now we have all the air heads from the legislative body and state positions to contend with to beat out with RCV. All are Republicans, like Lisa and hoping to get elected. What a mess!
Their is a lot more than 48,000 that want RCV gone.
I cannot agree more.
I could not locate a single place to sign the petition book. Not one.
I looked at the Repeal Now website, and they want money, they want you to volunteer, but nowhere on the site was a list of signing locations/events. Not one.
If they published a calendar with locations, the number of signatures they would have collected would approach 100K. Poorly run campaign to get this vomitous mass of a voting system repealed.
I as well had no luck finding a petition to sign this time around.
I was anticipating small business owners would have stepped up to the plate to gather signatures from different sectors of the voting public.
There are some business owners not willing to even show any signs of their political beliefs due to repercussions from radicalized actions from extremists.
It won’t be this bill but a third one that will make the change. This state is still in the dumb cycle of bad politicians to be put out. When the population catches on to the truly bad politics and no work by our legislative body and Crime Boss Dunleavy, then the population will get mad, get that gut type fire and over turn the RCV. Until then, we are stuck with what we voted on in the past and this second attempt will show it.
Hopefully the beginning of the end of this foolishness.
11-6-25
RANK-CHOICE-VOTE ….NO… NO…repeal …cancel ….repeal
BALLOT-BOX-VOTE ( In Person) …YES …..YES
Woohoo!!!! Proudly signed my name to that in North Pole Alaska! We are all sick of it! 👏👏
Maybe the 3rd times a charm. Lmao you so called Conservatives whine and don’t accept the will of the people more then any lib I have ever met
Your comment shows you are clueless to what level of violence the other side has displayed and taken when it comes to accepting “the will of the people”?
The violent resistance and outright assault of federal officers attempting to arrest and detain foreign imprisoned criminals who your feckless leader invited and paid to come here illegally as well as an assassination and repeated failed attempts on the Presidents life all took place after the last election.
Stay tuned to CNN the View MSNBC Jimmy Kimmel for more facts.
Point proven you feckless whiny snowflake.
Yes. For sure! We need to vote it out. Get rid of rank choice voting.
RCV is nothing but a petri dish for corruption!!! Cheating!!! Cheating!!! Cheating!!! Get rid of it yesterday!!
RCV is a far superior method of making sure that the median voter is represented. In Alaska the median voter is a socially libertarian, fiscally schizophrenic, pro-development Republican. Of course, the most pure Republican primary voters are skeptical of it because it removes power from the right flank. But, it is also the reason that we won’t ever again elect a Tony Knowles. The GOP party faithful are opposed to RCV because it empowers RINOS like Giessel and Murkowski, as well as Republicans who pretend to not be like Hickel and Walker.
I would love to see it gone, however, we’re becoming like Wash and Or. Combine that with lazy, non motivated republicans we more than likely won’t repeal it. Anchorage,Juneau, Cordova, and Nome are very liberal. The valley needs to get off their ass’s and vote. I saw 12% +/- on this election. Anch and the valley determine our state’s direction like it or not.
I couldn’t agree more about voter apathy. Anchorage is full of angry, Democrat revenge voters. They HATE conservatives and vote as if their votes are punches in the Conservative face. Anchorage has more of them than conservatives, now-a-days. That is, ASSUMING that it’s not just another case of apathetic conservative voters. I suspect that most of the conservatives in major urban centers have too much tax on their time: kids, jobs, keeping up their homes, church, etc. they simply don’t prioritize voting. Dems do prioritize it. It’s a satisfying act of defiance for them.
Looking forward to this failing again.
The Alaska version of Rank Choice Votng is not pure RCV!
Only the general election is Rank Choice. The Primary is a NON PARTISAN PRIMARY and a one voter, one vote pure election.
The NON PARTISAN primary gives 100% of Alaskans a choice of who they would like to see run for political office.
Want to get rid of RCV?
Write a bill that has KEEPS THE NON PARTISAN PRIMARY and Standard “one person, one vote” for the General.
Keep candidate selection a voters choice and restore “one person, one vote” to the general election!
Simplicity is sometimes the better path!
2025: The first legislative session in years where legislators came together to pass meaningful legislation. Would this have happed with “conservative” radicals dominating? No. Now we have a voting system that decreases the likelihood of activist politicians of all stripes, leaving the possibility of progress. Are you against a working legislature or for it? Support RCV for progress.
It needs to go. So much outside money has been spent to sway Alaskans into the voting system.
Why? Alaskans organically want it gone, and in fact, developed Alaska was far out pacing in the Yes vote to repeal the last time around but then the mail in ballots changed that.
I’m not saying those are fake ballots in the slightest. I think that serious dark money is spent in persuasion through the villages in our state.
I does need to get. Yes or No. That is a simple vote.
Not everybody, especially the majority of voters, focuses on the daily drama surrounding politics where name calling and partisan righteous indignation is nothing but political “click bait”. Only the services had it right when architects designed systems with one outstanding requirement: Make it idiot proof or as equally known as the KISS system-keep it simple stupid. Under the RCV system, too often voters are faced with the lessor of two evils, such as just evidenced in the NY mayoral election. Is the RCV fair and justified, ask any random citizen to explain how RCV works and you have your answer.
I agree that ranked choice voting should be repealed. Requiring more than 50% for election is arbitrary. Since Alaska includes several candidates for each position, a simple majority should determine the winner. I suspect that the powers that want more power will find a way to stop the repeal so that manipulation of the outcome continues, but I am proud of Alaskans who stand against it.
RCV is power to the People.
I got to vote for Santa Claus once!
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