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ANCHORAGE — Alaska voters appear to have rejected Ballot Measure 2 for the second time in two years. The measure would have repealed the state's nonpartisan open primary and ranked choice general election.
”It would have let the parties shut independent and undeclared voters out
Measure 2 was marketed as a vote on ranked choice voting. It did a lot more than that.
It would have replaced the nonpartisan Top Four primary with partisan primaries. Voters would have chosen a party's ballot "unless prohibited by the party's bylaws." That language would have let the parties shut independent and undeclared voters out of the primary.
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