Ballot Measure 2 “no” votes increased slightly in the final and official count of ballots by the Alaska Division of Elections.
Before the division completed its check of its work on Saturday, the Ballot Measure trying to repeal ranked-choice voting was losing by 664 votes.
After the division checked everything, the ballot measure was losing by 737 votes.
The Alaska Republican Party has already said it would ask for a recount of that ballot measure. Some $15 million was spent by dark money from outside the state trying to convince Alaskans that ranked-choice voting was best for the state. That appeared to have had a big impact on the outcome.
Donald Trump lost 254 votes in the final official results, ending with 184,458 votes, while Kamala Harris picked up 214 more votes, ending with 140,026.
Nick Begich gained a 175 votes. In unofficial results, he had 159,375, but in the official results (before ranked-choice kicked in) he ended up with 159,550 votes in the congressional race. Rep. Mary Peltola also gained 232 votes, starting out in the unofficial pre-ranking results with 152,596, and ending up on Nov. 30 with 152,828.
After the ranking, Begich defeated Peltola 51.22-48.78%, according to the New York X account of @cinyc9, which does election data analysis.
In the House District 18 race, winner David Nelson had a 23-vote lead before the final result; his lead was reduced by one vote to 22.
This story is being updated on Nov. 30.
