Alaskans for Honest Elections has achieved the purpose for which that group was founded: Putting the repeal of ranked-choice voting on Alaska’s 2024 ballot. This is an unalloyed good thing.
With thousands of names to spare, Alaskans for Honest Elections has won the right to have its repeal of ranked-choice voting on the ballot this year.
The Division of Elections has certified 36,841 signatures, and those came from every House district but six, easily making the needed threshold for statewide support. The group needed to have 26,705 registered voters to sign the petition, which was handed into the Division of Elections in January.
With dark money from outside the state, ranked-choice voting was presented to Alaska as a way to clean up elections. Instead, it has only made them more muddy and less trusted, critics say.
While Alaskans for Honest Elections turned in many more signatures…
