The Juneau Assembly this week opted to delay its decision on whether to adopt ranked choice voting for local elections. Rather than voting on the proposal later this month, Assembly members agreed to hold off until November — after the city’s upcoming municipal election on Oct. 7. Enacting the ranked-choice voting system could invigorate the conservative base in advance of the elections.
The ordinance under consideration would introduce ranked choice voting for municipal elections beginning in 2026. Under this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting just one. It is already in use for Alaska’s statewide elections, having been implemented in 2022, though it has faced a repeal effort that almost succeeded in 2024, and a current repeal effort.
Assembly member Ella Adkison, who introduced the ordinance, has been a vocal advocate for its adoption. But members of the public pushed back on the idea that such a radical change should be made without a public vote.
Public testimony on the ordinance is still scheduled for Aug. 18. If approved, Juneau would become the first major city in Alaska to adopt ranked choice voting for its municipal elections. Anchorage Assembly is also considering enacting the irregular voting system that it, too, would enact via ordinance.
Rank choice voting, the darling of deceivers since its inception, is sure to create more distrust and apathy among voters that are more disillusioned every year. You don’t fix anything by more complication. One person, one vote.
In polite society, ranked-choice voting is called cheating.
You can select just one and it will count, If that got changed then it was done recently Anchorage here is your chance to redeem yourself
That’s not necessarily true. If you just vote for one and they do their little ballot dance, then your ballot may just be null and void because you didn’t select a 2nd choice.
There might be some concern in Juneau that the RCV might allow folks other than far-left, eco-freak and union candidates to win elections. We can’t have that – can we?
We don’t want it, but the Assembly has long proven the wants of the citizens are immaterial.
But we keep sending them back, so this is an odd version of karma.
Most likely they have already made up their minds on this and public input will merely be a formality. They have a pretty good track record of not listening to what the public has to say. Every one of them from the Mayor on down should be replaced, it’s mind boggling that they keep getting voted back in.
I miss voting in primary elections as a nonpartisan. As a voter, I was able to take the time to review the preliminary candidates from all parties and make a primary vote. And then I was able to take the time to review the primary winners and make a more informed general election vote.
Our old way of voting gave me more of a voice as a nonpartisan. RCV took that away.
Yes …. we always had RUN in our elections; Republican – Undeclared – Non-partisan, who could vote ANY ballot.
The con artists that gave us RCV know this of course, but implemented it to gain favor for their candidates by saying it to gives us more voting ‘freedom’
All any Alaskan had to do was register RU or N (what we, mistaking call, “Independent” up here) to have total voting freedom as most Alaskan’s are ‘independent’
Loosely translated. The Assembly has heard us and needs space to figure out how to end run us successfully.
Which, as of late, means figuring out how to “legally” appropriate funds that should be going to basic infrastructure and services needs and instead divert and use those funds to propagandize the public who must just not understand the issue “correctly” if they disagree with what the assembly deems best.
I hope everyone on here is signing the petition to repeal RCV.