We’re trying again to repeal ranked-choice voting here in the Great Land, and the process has now passed its first hurdle. The petition has been drafted, and the process of gathering signatures is starting now. In 2024, the repeal effort failed by a narrow margin – fewer than a thousand votes – despite being outspent massively by money from Outside. But there’s a new team running the initiative this time, and they are taking a different approach.
The second effort to repeal ranked-choice voting began its next big phase on Saturday, with the signature-gathering effort launched at the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Anchorage. Petition books have been distributed across the state by the group REPEAL NOW, which is headed up by Bernadette Wilson, Bethany Marcum, and Judy Eledge.
The first effort to repeal ranked-choice voting was vastly outspent by opponents…
