The Alaska state Elections office has unofficial, and very preliminary, results at this link. The primary was August 16 and it will be weeks before the vote is completely counted.
For Governor, it appears there will be two Republicans, one Democrat, and one independent on the November ballot.
For U.S. Senate, it appears there will be three Republicans and one Democrat on the November ballot.
For U.S. House (full term), it seems there will be three Republicans and one Democrat in November.
No minor party candidate for any statewide office advanced to the November ballot.
Aug snow/ice storms i frozen AK land ???
votes via dog sleds , bears, moose ???
How dumb are you? It’s August. Have you ever even been to Alaska?
In top-x states, the state parties should retain the right to determine who can carry their labels. Everyone else should be listed as independent.
Well this system Walter is designed to kill internal party influences on who represents them, so the people pushing this would never allow that.
I’d say if you were going to do this, you go full Nebraska and remove party labels from the ballot altogether. But again, that’s probably not the intentions of the people pushing this.
I agree. No more RHINOS! Trump and committees of those proven loyal to Trump should determine who should be allowed to run in Republican primaries where there are Republican primaries, or as Republicans in open primaries where there are open primaries. We need a government at all levels and in all branches, of those loyal to Trump and only Trump. Being disloyal to Trump is being disloyal to America, and we need to move people into all positions of power everywhere who can then use that power to punish all who are disloyal to Trump and America as well as our foreign enemies. Thus defeating the forces of Satan in the final battle of the ages and ushering the Kingdom of Christ.
This system has not turned out I think how the people that designed it intended at all (although the people that designed it did so to save Murkowski from losing a primary). Don Young’s death threw a monkey wrench into it and the Gross withdrawal after being one of the top 4 combined with you can tell there’s machinations behind the scenes of not a single other Democrat was on the general election ballot for Congress other than Peltola. Be interesting to see how they change.
The best system is no ballots at all.
The concern with write in ballots is handwriting. The concern with print at home ballots is ballot stuffing. Fine. I have a better solution: the caucus voting system.
You show up in the evening after a hard day’s work on the farm or in the factory while your wife washes the dishes, mops the floors, does laundry, and puts the kids to bed, and spend a few hours standing in a corner of a big room in front of all your neighbors together with the supporters of your party while some of your party’s supporters make speeches to convince undecided and persuadable voters to come over to your corner. All voting is strictly by party; the party committee meets in a back room filled with thick cigar smoke to pick the candidates. To qualify a party you must get above a certain threshold of voters in above a certain threshold of precincts to stand in their corner on election day.
You may have to spend a few hours standing in a corner of a room together with your neighbors who support your party, but you won’t have to stand in line to vote. Can’t face your neighbors and let them know which party you support? Stay home, you do not deserve to vote.
It should go without saying that only White, property owning men who are members of a Christian church should be allowed to vote. There should be a literacy test, a poll tax, and the voting age should be raised to 30. There should also be a requirement that men have a wife and at least two children to be allowed to vote, and that their father’s father should have also been a registered voter in the same county. This would fix the vast majority of political problems in this country.
Party labels are also useful for identifying the enemies of America and the enemies of freedom such as Demoncrats, green pukes, socialists, etc. But they are a lot less useful if party committees do not control who uses their label. The average voter does not have time and inclination to research candidates individually. That is what party committees exist for. They serve a useful role.
The ballots carry the party registration of the candidate.
Perhaps political parties should be able to grant permission for voters to register with them.
Jim Riley,
Robert Ornelas ran for the House of Representatives here in Alaska when he filed he was a resident of California on Monday two days ago be became an inhabitant of the State of Alaska. He was on the ballot as American Independent Party while that is not a party officially in Alaska.
@MS,
In Alaska voters may register with political groups. All it takes to become a political group is filing with the Elections Division. The name of the political group appears on registration forms and candidates may indicate their political group on their candidate application. The Libertarian Party is not a political party in Alaska yet they were able to have candidates on the ballot. In one house race a candidate registered with the Veterans Partty finished second with over a third of the votes.
You and Ornelas should register the American Independent Party.
Remind me again why the Alaska Libertarian Party endorsed the top 4 initiative?
American Independent Party is not a political group in Alaska.
@MS,
The reason that the American Independent Party is not a political groups is that party leaders have not filed the necessary paperwork with the Division of Elections.
WEEKS TO GET FINAL RESULTS ???
45 DAYS NOTICE REQUIRED IN FED ELECTIONS.
ONE MORE REASON TO HAVE NOOO primaries.
True. Caucuses are much better. And should be extended to general elections.