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Alaska Ballot Measure 2 was a ballot initiative that was voted on in the November 5, 2024, general election. The ballot measure narrowly failed to pass. [1] [2]If enacted, it would have repealed Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting.
A ballot measure was approved by voters which would increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2027 and expand sick paid leave. The minimum wage in Alaska at the time of the election was $11.73 an hour, an inflation-adjusted amount of the $9.75 an hour minimum wage enacted after the passage of the 2014 Ballot Measure 3. [10] [11] [12]
With only a fraction of votes still uncounted, the Associated Press projects that Ballot Measure 2 has been defeated, keeping Alaska's RCV system intact, by a whisker: 49.9 percent to 50.1 percent.
This was the first presidential election following the state's adoption of Measure 2, which institutes ranked-choice voting for all statewide general elections. [2] While Republicans were still heavily favored to carry the state in 2024, Alaska has shifted closer to the center since the 2010s and is now considered a moderately red state.
A state court judge on Friday disqualified numerous booklets used to gather signatures for an initiative that aims to repeal Alaska's ranked choice voting system and gave elections officials a ...
An initiative aimed at repealing Alaska's ranked choice voting system still has sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot, attorneys for the state said in court filings Tuesday ...
The Alaska Democratic Party attempted to have Hafner removed from the ballot due to his status as a federal prisoner in New York, but the Alaska Supreme Court rejected their arguments. [2] Given Alaska's conservative lean, Peltola was considered a top target for Republicans throughout the cycle. [3]
Elsewhere, Alaska is the one state that already uses a top-four primary and ranked-choice general election, but Ballot Measure 2 would take it back to partisan primaries and a "first past the post ...