Ballot Measure 2: Repeal Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting
What does this measure do?
Opposes: Anti-Corruption
Repeals Alaska's 2020 election system: ends open primaries and ranked-choice general elections, brings back party primaries where the top vote-getter wins, and repeals the 2020 campaign finance disclosure rules and donation limits for governor tickets. No cost to you.
Read the official ballot measure (PDF)
Proposed by: Citizen initiative (petition 24ESEG) by the Repeal Now campaign: Ken McCarty, Judy Eledge and Bernadette Wilson
Three Republicans: former state Rep. McCarty of Eagle River, Anchorage Republican Women's Club president Eledge, and Wilson, a 2026 candidate for governor. They want to undo ranked choice voting.
Source: adn.com
A YES vote means
Alaska returns to party primaries and single-choice general elections, and drops the 2020 campaign donation disclosure rules and limits.
A NO vote means
Open top-four primaries, ranked-choice general elections, and the 2020 disclosure rules stay in place.
Sources: elections.alaska.gov · ballotpedia.org · thealaskacurrent.com
Sources: elections.alaska.gov2 · ballotpedia.org · thealaskacurrent.com