The second effort to repeal ranked-choice voting began its next big phase on Saturday, with the signature-gathering effort launched at the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Anchorage. Petition books have been distributed across the state by the group REPEAL NOW, which is headed up by Bernadette Wilson, Bethany Marcum, and Judy Eledge.
The first effort to repeal ranked-choice voting was vastly outspent by opponents with Outside dark money, yet came within a few hundred signatures from repealing the novel voting method put in place — again, with dark money supporters — in 2020.
REPEAL NOW’s campaign focuses on educating voters about the complexities inherent the RCV system, which is confusing and ends up with many more spoiled and uncounted ballots than regular voting. This time, the REPEAL NOW group is doing a straight repeal of the 2020 law that voters passed through initiative.
The signature-gathering process is formidable. To succeed, REPEAL NOW must collect signatures from at least 10% of the number of voters who participated in the last general election, distributed across three-fourths of Alaska’s House districts. This equates to approximately 35,000 valid signatures statewide.
The next big event where signatures will be gathered will be the Mat-Su Outdoorsman Show, Arpril 11-13 in Wasilla. But other signature books will be circulating in communities from Ketchikan to Utqiagvik.
Once collected, these signatures will be submitted to the Division of Elections for verification. If validated, the repeal measure will appear on the 2026 ballot, allowing Alaskans to vote on whether to retain or discard the RCV system.
To learn more about REPEAL NOW, head to this link.
Questions and correspondence can be directed to [email protected]
The group is now planning to raise funds to educate the public about the choice between the current system of voting in Alaska, which Democrats and Sen. Lisa Murkowski support, and the regular method of voting that American voters have used since voting began in 1788’s with the election of George Washington as the nation’s first president.
I’ll sign let’s gooooo!
Utqiagvik. Barrow?
See this is the importance of voting.
They named themselves. They’re allowed to do that. ;-D
Their ballers are still called the Barrow Whalers.
The RCV voting system is horrendous. Alaska, let’s repeal this corrupt, unfair, disingenuous Democrat voting scam.
I am happy to help if I can be of any assistance. Other than that I am **delighted** to sign my name on the petition and help in any way I can! Gunalchéesh! Let us rid our state of this monstrosity now and forever.
Hear, hear!
You go girls!
Why does it take women to get things done? (asking as a man)
What is the deadline to sign? I want to sign.
I’ll sign, when I see someone out collecting signatures. I intensely dislike RCV.
I will make it a point to attend the outsoorsman show, simply to sign this petition.
Optimistically repeal likely has a better chance of passing. The outside money is being addressed by the Trump admin. RCV and Murkowski will be up against Alaskans, not outsiders.
In response to your question George D
Men are stronger than women and women are smarter than men
Just ask our President !
And my wife !!
REPEAL RCV
Make America Great Again
Hopefully the signature gatherers won’t scream at people that won’t sign like I saw at Carrs the last time around.
And like like last time, I won’t be signing. Looking forward to seeing this fail again.
Screaming at people? Well…at least they don’t throw bricks through windows, loot businesses, light buildings and small businesses on fire, burn Teslas, and pull people they politically disagree with out of their cars onto the street to assault them.
CommunistMan, always a stalwart defender of the status-quo and deep state powers.
You still have never answered my question: how does it feel to be a spineless conformist, and an abject and servile lackey to those in power?
Why the detainment / control of the Repeal Petition books?
There are three sponsors of the initiative to repeal rank choice voting: Bernadette Wilson, Judy Eledge, and myself (Ken McCarty). The flow of presenting the initiative to the Lt. Governor and maintaining integrity of the language was successful. The acceptance by the Lt. Governor on 2/14/25 to order petition books resulted in the books printed and availed on 3/11/25. I along with Bernadette Wilson went to the election office to be educated in the process and given the books. I concur with integrity and management of the petition process. However, since 3/11/25 not even this sponsor has been allowed to have petition books. Why? Since 3/11/25 there have been many community events which people have told me “where are the books to sign.” Why have we missed possibility of thousands of signatures? At the Governor’s prayer breakfast yesterday there were several people who came to me asking where they can sign the petition or get books for their communities. Today is the Palmer Lions Gun Show at the State Fair grounds, which many have asked me where are the books.
In a prior Must Read article there was a brief statement that “I was going a different direction.” The direction I go is to write a clear initiative to REPEAL rank choice voting, get the petition books signed by invested Alaskans who think likewise, and inform Alaskans by November 2026 of the choice to vote wisely to REPEAL rank choice voting. The Realrepeal.com is just for the purpose stated.
I wish the authors would have started an initiative to make all elections coincide with the fall federal elections. I don’t think that anyone who signs this petition would not sign the election petition. This would bring the republicans into Anchorage elections and get rid of the horrid assembly we have now
RCV MUST be repealed and never again see the light of day. Same goes for the political career of it’s main Alaskan proponent, Lisa Murkowski. What a snake in the dark-money grass.