Alaska found a way to elect more moderates. Now voters might end it.
- Posted on October 8, 2026
- By Washington Post
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In brief
Alaska's innovative ranked-choice voting system, designed to promote centrist candidates and reduce partisan polarization, faces potential elimination through a November referendum. This electoral reform has successfully increased moderate representation in state politics, but voters will ultimately decide whether to preserve or abandon this experimental approach to primary elections that permits four candidates to advance regardless of party affiliation.
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Alaska found a way to elect more moderates. Now voters might end it.
Alaskans will decide in November whether to ditch a system that allows four primary candidates, regardless of party, to advance to the general election.
