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Alaska's 'Yes on 2' Campaign: Voters Have A Right to Know Who Is Trying to Influence Their Elections | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Alaska's 'Yes on 2' Campaign: Voters Have A Right to Know Who Is Trying to Influence Their Elections. September 15, 2020. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. - The comprehensive reform campaign, Yes on 2 for Better Elections, released its first general…
Alaska Better Elections Campaign: Partisan Primaries Have Failed Our State | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Alaska Better Elections Campaign: Partisan Primaries Have Failed Our State. August 27, 2020. The. Alaskans for Better Elections. “Yes on 2” campaign says the poor turnout in Alaska’s closed partisan primaries points to the biggest…
Alaska Becomes First In The Nation to Approve Top-4 Primary with Ranked Choice Voting | Independent Voter Newsan electoral system that lives up to Alaska’s independent streak by saying ‘to hell with politics let’s do what is right for Alaska’.” said Yes on 2 campaign manager Shea Siegert. Alaska is now required to use a nonpartisan primary system where all voters…
Alaskans Could Make History with Top-Four Primary with Ranked Choice Voting | Independent Voter Newsto improve the electoral process in Alaska and elsewhere. Alaska has a “red state” reputation, but campaign representatives say it has a significant independent streak. It has the largest percentage of registered independent voters in the nation who have…
Alaskans Overwhelmingly Support Better Elections Amendment, Poll Finds | Independent Voter Newsthat pour into in-state races. It was the focus of the Alaskans for Better Elections’. first television ad. as the campaign says it is a growing concern among voters. “Out of all the improvements Ballot Measure 2 will bring to Alaska’s elections, ending Dark…
"We're Throwing a Punch at the Bipartisan Establishment" | Independent Voter Newsget nonpartisan primary reform passed with an alternative voting method in Alaska, Arkansas, North Dakota, St. Louis, and the campaign to bring nonpartisan primaries to one of the nation's biggest battleground states -- Florida. Griffiths and Opdycke not…
Major National Reform Progress: New Initiatives, Spotlights, Books, and More... | Independent Voter NewsAlaskans for Better Elections. campaign scored a major legal victory after the Alaska Supreme Court unanimously ruled its ballot initiative met the state constitution's single subject requirement. The majority opinion wrote that the initiative, which would…
Ranked Choice Voting in Presidential Primaries: Higher Turnout, More Choice, Greater Confidence | Independent Voter NewsAlaska, Wyoming, Kansas, and Hawaii transitioned from caucuses to all-mail RCV primaries, the combination resulting in a spike in turnout: Source: FairVote. Kansas, in particular, is a noteworthy success story, seeing as turnout increased nearly 300% from the…
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79% of State Legislative Incumbents Had No Primary Opposition this Year | Independent Voter NewsIn seven states, less than 10% of incumbents seeking re-election had a contested primary. The five states with the highest percentages of incumbents in contested primaries include: 1. Wyoming. 2. West Virginia. 3. California. 4. Alaska. 5. Arizona. The…
Giving Millions of Citizens A Better Way To Vote | Independent Voter Newsand all the places it will either soon be implemented or passed. This includes the Big Apple, a city of over 8 million residents, Massachusetts, Alaska, and many, many efforts nationwide to get ranked choice voting on the ballot or passed through state…