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?
RCV was the only missing element. Next up: collective farming on the Park Strip.
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.
one word… “ORDINANCE”
says it all…