The Alaska Division of Elections released a new batch of ballot results Monday. These were straggler absentee ballots from the Nov. 5 election, and the result shows that suddenly the repeal of ranked-choice voting with Ballot Measure 2 is losing. Earlier reports showed it winning.
The No to repealing the ranked-choice voting is now at 157,124, or just over 50%, while those who want to repeal RCV are at 156,932, 49.97%.
The difference is 192 votes. All the 3,928 ballots counted and reported today were absentee ballots from House Districts 9-24 in Anchorage.
There may be up to 6,000 left to count on Tuesday and Wednesday, but it’s not clear from the information being released by the Division of Elections just how many it has. The Valley absentee votes have yet to be counted, it appears, and Fairbanks is also in play for its absentee votes. They have yet to finish counting Districts 25 through 36 absentee.
According to Phil Izon, one of the people who pushed for a repeal, the timeline of how the votes have gone on Ballot Measure 2 over the past 14 days is as follows:
11/05 – (Election Day)
Yes to Repeal – 113,708 – 51.30%
No to Repeal – 107,946 – 48.70%
11/06 –
Yes to Repeal – 125,230 – 50.87%
No to Repeal – 120,941 – 49.13%
11/07 –
Yes to Repeal – 125,489 – 50.83%
No to Repeal – 121,367 – 49.17%
11/08-
Yes to Repeal – 125,610 – 50.84%
No to Repeal – 121,473 – 49.16%
11/09 – No Results Updated
11/10 – No Results Updated
11/11 – No Results Updated
11/12 – No Results Updated
11/13-
Yes to Repeal – 146,182 – 50.4%
No to Repeal – 143,770 – 49.6%
11/14 –
Yes to Repeal – 146,202 – 50.4%
No to Repeal – 143,777 – 49.6%
11/15 –
Yes to Repeal – 152,915 – 50.3%
No to Repeal – 151,239 – 49.7%
11/16 –
Yes to Repeal – 155,592- 50.1%
No to Repeal – 154,697 – 49.9%
11/17 – No Results Updated
11/18 –
Yes to Repeal – 156,932 – 49.97%
No to Repeal – 157,124 – 50.03%
Also, in this latest tranche of ballots, Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola has gained more votes, but is still losing.
Rep. Cliff Groh, the Democrat who represents District 18, north Anchorage. Groh gained 15 votes and now has a lead of 25 over challenger David Nelson, the Republican.
The total number of ballots counted now is 332,386 out of the 611,078 registered voters in Alaska. Not all voters voted in every race on the ballot.
Coming down the wire…..photo finish.
Photo finish my butt, it gave you left wing donkeys time to come up with a plan to cheat!
More like a “Easy online photo editor”
Alaska Elections are a joke. As usual results change two weeks after an election. This nothin but a bunch of cheating going on. Ridiculous.
Why do “last minute” votes always go to Democrats? We all know the answer. They count the votes.
And produce the extra needed ballots. Needs to be a thorough investigation.
Isn’t literally every single branch of government in Alaska Republican?
SHOCKING??? NOPE, NOT AT ALL!!!
Keep counting until you win… and if you don’t, count some more? This is not what is needed to instill trust in the election process. It can’t be this complicated, this drawn-out, and this opaque to the residents of Alaska.
“Trust us”
No.
You need to show us your work.
WE must have a RECOUNT on #2. We were ahead, until this last vote counting.
I’m glad they are counting all of the ballots. Somehow the Republicans are in charge but then complain about the process when they are losing. COUNT ALL THE VOTES THAT HAVE BEEN CAST LEGALLY!
This is corruption. Who the heck wanted to keep RCV? There should be a serious forensic investigation. This was drug out until they could produce ballots for people who likely never went to the polls.
Where are the Republicans challenging this apparent fraud in the courts? Or are the majority of our state politicians on the take?
Yes, always at the end always the absentee balance that they’ve been sitting in the basement filling out since June
This exactly what happened when they put RCV into Alaska. I do not trust these # at all
Thanks. I just won a bet that there would already be a conspiracy theory advanced here.
AK politics are a disgrace. Controlled by out of state dark money that don’t care one bit about the residents of this state. Worse thing is many of our politicians are so spineless they won’t even stand up and speak out against it.
Pretty much all balloting was approx 50/50, then in the last dump Yes went up only 1,340 votes and No went up 2,427 votes. Then only Yes got 35% vote and No got 65%. Agreed that seems suspicious.
Dahlstrom’s Dawdling.
There are no coincidences.
Wait for it. Wait for it. I can hear the claims of vote rigging starting to hatch in the far distance. Here they come.
I voted one person one vote on a RCV ballot.
I am a republican and we are smart, so I voted no on 2 😉
Audit