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Politics
Alex DeMarban

Alaska's constitutional convention ballot measure failing by a significant margin

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — By a wide margin, Alaskans firmly rejected a ballot measure asking whether Alaska should hold a constitutional convention, according to preliminary election results.

Seventy percent of voters were rejecting it, with 387 of 402 precincts reporting.

The question on whether to hold a convention to draft changes to the Alaska Constitution appears on the ballot every 10 years. It has failed by a roughly 2-1 margin for decades.

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