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
A Radical Idea for Fixing Congress: Proportional Representation | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- July 6, 2023
- America’s current system
- American democracy
- best way
- biggest victory yetThe changes
- Black representation
- black voters
- civil-rights era
- co-founder of Fix Our House
- congressional elections
- Congressman
- congressmen
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- council
- current winner-take
- Democratic Representative Don Beyer of Virginia
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- federal elections
- federal level
- frequently cited example of a multiparty system
- friends today
- frustrated election experts
- governor
- growing number of political-reform advocates
- house of representatives
- Katherine Gehl
- larger districts
- least hope
- Lee Drutman
- left-leaning New America Foundation
- mayor
- member of Congress
- moderate Democrat Mary Peltola
- Moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
- more representative government
- Multimember House districts
- multiparty democracy.Lee Drutman
- natural clustering of like-minded people
- new season of reform
- parties’ most ideological voters
- partisan gerrymandering
- partisan primaries
- policy advocate
- political scientist
- political-reform movement
- politics
- possible proposals
- president
- Proportional Representation
- radical change
- Ranked Choice Voting
- recent years
- republican
- Republican leaders
- senator
- senior fellow
- southern states
- support of some civil-rights activists
- U.S. Politics
- unachievable.Supporters of proportional representation
- vigorous competition of ideas
For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like best—usually the same one they chose last time—and whoever gets the most votes will represent them and a few hundred thousand of their neighbors in the House of Representatives. In […]
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