Alaska Ballot Measures
Alaska ballot measures are the initiatives, referendums and constitutional amendments voters decide statewide. They take in petition drives, signature counts, legal challenges to ballot language, and the laws voters adopt or repeal.
Podium at the AFN convention held this year at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage
AFN delegates urge Alaskans to vote no on Ballot Measure 2, the ranked-choice repeal
Alaska Federation of Natives delegates on Saturday urged Alaskans to reject Ballot Measure 2, passing a resolution on the last day of the group's 60th annual convention in Anchorage. AFN said the vote was unanimous.
The measure, on Tuesday's ballot, would bring back party primaries and single-choice general elections, ending the open primaries and ranked-choice general elections voters approved in 2020. It would also repeal campaign finance rules passed that year, including disclosure of the true source of donations, according to its official summary.
Sealaska Corp. submitted the resolution, renewing a stand AFN took in 2024. Voters rejected an earlier repeal that year by 743 votes, the narrowest ballot measure result in state history.
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