The Anchorage Assembly will hold a public hearing on Sept. 9 to consider an ordinance that could bring Ranked Choice Voting to local elections.
The proposal, Ordinance No. AO 2025-58, would place a question before voters to amend the Anchorage Home Rule Charter and update Anchorage Municipal Code Title 28 in order to implement Ranked Choice Voting for municipal offices.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 6 pm during the Assembly’s regular meeting at the Z.J. Loussac Library Assembly Chambers, located at 3600 Denali Street.
According to the official notice, the ordinance is being brought forward by Assembly Chair Chris Constant.
If passed by the Assembly, the measure would be submitted to voters in the Municipality of Anchorage in April, 2026.
Meanwhile, the Juneau Assembly is advancing a plan to adopt ranked-choice voting for future local elections. On June 2, the Assembly advanced an ordinance introduced by Assembly member Ella Adkison that would implement the new voting system starting in 2026. A public hearing and final vote are scheduled for late July.
Adkison claims the RCV system fosters consensus and allows for more nuanced voter expression — though she has offered no evidence to support this assertion.
The Alaska Legislature, filled with officials elected under RCV, is a counterexample, with observers noting record levels of dysfunction and gridlock. Adkison works as a legislative aide to Juneau state Sen. Jesse Kiehl, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest, access to sensitive voter data, and divided allegiances.
Juneau will become the first municipality in Alaska to use ranked-choice voting for local elections, with Anchorage following close behind.
Alaskans adopted ranked-choice voting in Alaska via a ballot initiative in November 2020 through Ballot Measure 2, which passed with 51% of the vote. That measure established a top-four jungle primary system, ranked-choice voting for general elections, and a change to how the governor’s race is managed starting with the 2022 election cycle. In 2024, an effort to repeal ranked-choice voting failed by 664 votes. Another effort to repeal it is now under way.
Anchorage adopted vote-by-mail elections for municipal elections in 2018, and Juneau has since adopted mail-in elections.
Of course the Assembly is considering adding RCV to our muni elections. The cooked scheme has worked successfully for the leftists. Sadly, their “you’re too stupid to understand RCV” radio ads helped ensure the initiative to overturn RCV would fail. If this is not overturned soon, the work that Scott Kendall did to permanently screw up Alaska elections will cause generational harm to the state.
RANK choice voting.
All these gimmicky changes in our voting procedures are advanced by the radical left, who can, will and do use them to suborn elections and further consolidate their sociopathic hold on power.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
ANC Muni is like a nightmare: it just keeps getting worse!
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The Left is winning everything now at the local level. Why would they do anything to change it?
To keep winning.
RCV was the only missing element. Next up: collective farming on the Park Strip.
With the latest changes to the building codes, collective housing is already here, so why not collective farming?
With all low income people living in Anchorage, RCV will be approved, you have retards running the city, and morons supporting them.
One big Dumpster fire.
Democrat corruption to disenfranchise voters. 😡
They need RCV to flip the Eagle River assembly seats, they have a lock on all the others.
Bingo!
I was thinking the same thing! Evil bunch of people! Praying for Eagle Exit to happen before they ruin Eagle River, just like they ruined Anchorage!
one word… “ORDINANCE”
says it all…
The citizens in Juneau are using initiative process to try and ditch current mail in voting procedures and return to poll based method to elect local elected officials.
In Juneau, the mail in voting procedures turned out to be more expensive, took longer to obtain results and marginally increased opportunity for election fraud.
JD said: “In Juneau, the mail in voting procedures turned out to be more expensive, took longer to obtain results and marginally increased opportunity for election fraud.”
Just like mail in voting did here in ANC. Two election systems with the same problems and outcomes. This would suggest that the problems are a feature rather than a bug as long as the features return the same desired outcome (electing democrats). Cheers –
I doubt whether the ASSembly can get more “Rank” than it is but it will certainly enable the Ass seats to become permanently installed fixtures.
Will be fun to watch Constantly raging and Pigman at the trough.
One man, one vote.
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I think you all are missing the opportunity being presented.
RCV enables an open primary.
This means everyone of you, all of you, can be on the primary ballot. Instead of complaining, finger pointing and banging your heads… you could run. You could actually do something about Chris and his gang. You could introduce your own “ordinances”.
It only requires time, listening skills, and courage.
Do YOU have what it takes?
Oh right, you mean how RCV has improved our State Legislature? Yes we too can have a chaotic, dysfunctional, municipality, assembly. How about we just fix the problem and get rid of RCV? Easy Peasy fixed the problem.
Interesting that the ARP had an initiative on the state wide ballot in 2002 for RCV. Can anyone please explain why the change of heart?
Robert the 2002 initiative was not the same as our current system. As far as I read, there was no jungle primary and candidates for ranking were limited to 5 total. At the time pretty much all conservative leaning parties along with the greens party supported the measure. The voters however did not.
You wonder why the change of heart, I think it has to do with seeing the system in action, how confusing it is, how long it takes to get results and how it undermines voter confidence in the system. Candidates are not interchangeable and picking “a lesser candidate” to represent me is in my opinion a capitulation of our system.
I don’t find the current RCV confusing at all. A few years ago Bernadette Wilson had a very good you video explaining RCV.
Okay Anchorage Eagle River and MOA AD2 sleeping giants – Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
This was once a solution: When there is an election, VOTE
But
Elections in Anchorage are now a political pawn wall to jump over.
An issue that is top of the list is this: the amount of sleepy voters – the conservative voter participation is dismal.
Let there be light for MOA AD2?
Perhaps conservative residents of MOA AD2 are still hoping EAGLEXIT will sometime become a reality and provide escape from the stalking clutches of the carnivorous Anchorage liberal pterodactyls. 🦖🦖🦖
Sadly – No time in the near future, it’s just a dream some of us had.
Truth: Anchorage is the target area of the state.
As the BIGGEST city in Alaska it has long self suffered under liberal BIG RIGGED ELECTIONS.
*Mail in ballots are a big rig.
*Endless counting (until a satisfactory outcome) is a big rig.
What’s next?? (local MOA AD2 sleepy residents) … tada! – RCV – the biggest **BIG RIG** election scam hosted upon the state will soon be coming to a local theater election near you.
Oh – but wait. The government is going to allow a time for opinions on the issue.
The chance to get public input – is always a joke.
Once the liberal pterodactyls 🦖🦖🦖 set their sights on prey, they will stalk it until it gives up.
That will happen, regardless of the outpouring from folks who don’t want RCV, **it will happen**. There are simply more powerful liberal folks in Alaska state and on the Anch. Assembly and Anchorage Government employees who DO want it and WILL do anything to make it happen.
Ultra important is securing the outcome of ANY Anchorage election for the unforeseen future.
Sorry – While what I wrote may seem sadly black pilled – it is.
(PS, this is an opinion and like any opinion take it or leave it, but be warned).
RCV in Anchorage is not an inevitably foreseeable outcome. More people dislike RCV than approve it. It all comes down to voter turnout. The Republican Committee needs to spend some time & money on ads print, radio, TV & social media. Otherwise, it’ll be blue from San Diego to Utquiagvik.
Are you freakin kidding me?!?!?!? So feasibly on the ballot would be repeal rcv for AK AND adopt rcv for Anchorage?!? If we don’t want it for the state, why would — Omgosh! Why am I even commenting?!??
Maybe if Wellspring Ministries doesn’t launder the RCV campaign funds through the church this time, we’ll have a chance!