For the second week in a row, the Supreme Court did not add any new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the justices turned down several dozen petitions for review that they had considered at their private conference on Friday,
The ballot measure that would repeal Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice voting system is now failing by the narrowest of margins, according to the latest results update from the Division of Elections on Monday.
In Alaska’s statewide federal elections, Alaska voters flipped its lone House seat with Republican Nick Begich unseating Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK). Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is up for reelection in 2026.
Opponents of the repeal effort were just 192 votes ahead of those in favor as additional ballots were counted on Monday.
The Alaska Division of Elections released the results from 17,000 ballots Friday, but thousands of additional ballots remain to be counted, according to figures provided by the division. The latest count,
Republican Nick Begich has ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola to win Alaska’s lone House seat, Decision Desk HQ projects. That marks 220 seats for Republicans, surpassing the 218 needed to control the chamber.
As of Monday afternoon’s update, there are 192 more votes opposing the measure to repeal ranked choice voting than supporting it.
Some absentee and early votes are set to be counted on Tuesday, but Alaskans may need to wait until Nov. 20 for clear results.
The top four candidates on the general election ballot included a Democrat serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York.
While final results and tabulation are still a few weeks away, preliminary election results can tell us a lot about the future of ranked choice voting, the minimum wage, and the makeup of the 2025 legislature.
Republican Nick Begich III declared victory Saturday in the race for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat over incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola. In the latest count of ballots posted Saturday, he