Must Read Alaska, an on-line news source, has this story about the recent amicus brief filed in Kohlhaas v State, the case in the Alaska Supreme Court over the top-four system passed by the voters in November 2020. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
Must Read Alaska, an on-line news source, has this story about the recent amicus brief filed in Kohlhaas v State, the case in the Alaska Supreme Court over the top-four system passed by the voters in November 2020. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
It appears that the Alaska constitution is similar to the Maine constitution in that it specifically requires plurality voting for certain offices. This means that in Maine, ranked choice voting is only used for offices that don’t specifically require plurality voting. Perhaps the same will pertain to Alaska.
I understand that there is a movement to amend the constitution in Maine to extend ranked choice voting to all offices.
ANOTHER PURGE LIST
@WZ,
It is more ambigious in Alaska. Maine used to require a majority. Since they weren’t using government-printed ballots, this could result in a deadlock. The expedient was to simply switch to “plurality’.
It appears that the amicus is based on records from the constitutional convention where it was decided not to have a runoff. They are also claiming that gubernatorial elections are not severable. They are trying to pull down the whole initiative.
Let the purge begin!
“Andy on November 18, 2021 at 9:09 pm said:
Let the purge begin!”
This post was not from me.
Who said it was from you?
The post above at 11/18/21 at 11:08 PM was not from me.
Again, no one said it was from you. It was obviously from me.