ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A new group has announced it will attempt to do away with ranked choice voting in Alaska by ballot initiative, and former Gov. Sarah Palin was the first to sign the petition — before the outcome of her congressional bid is final.
Alaskans for Honest Government, a political action committee that formed last month, hosted an event Thursday evening where group organizers launched their effort to collect signatures to put the question of reinstating the state’s former voting system to voters on the 2024 ballot. Ranked choice voting was adopted in Alaska by ballot initiative in 2020, and first used in 2022.
Six days before final results in Alaska’s U.S. House race would be known, Palin spoke to a crowd of several dozen people at a South Anchorage church, calling ranked choice voting “whack” and promising to “fight for what’s right and to lead the rest of the nation in getting back to fair, free, transparent, clear elections.”
