Alaska
Nonpartisan open primaries let Alaskans choose values over party • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- April 9, 2024
- Alaska Division of Elections
- Bill Walker
- Congressman
- congressmen
- council
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- governor
- Les Gara
- Lisa Murkowski
- Mary Peltola
- mayor
- mike dunleavy
- nonpartisan primaries
- Open Primary
- partisan primaries
- politics
- president
- Ranked Choice Voting
- republican
- senator
- Sightline Institute
In 2022, Alaska voters for the first time used nonpartisan open primaries to choose candidates for the general election. Every voter, regardless of political registration, received the same ballot. And every ballot listed every candidate in every race. In this style of primary, voters could support a mix of Republicans, Democrats, independents and third-party candidates, […]
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Alaska
Alaska House votes to advance bill that would trim state voter rolls more quickly • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
The Alaska House of Representatives has voted along bipartisan lines to shorten the time needed to remove someone from the state’s voting registry. The move is part of an effort to deflate the state’s voter rolls, which currently contain many more people than are eligible to vote in the state, an artifact of the state’s […]
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