The director of the Alaska Division of Elections says that the recount of a narrowly defeated ballot measure will likely begin Wednesday. The division certified general election results Saturday. They showed that the ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries lost 49.

Voters passed Ballot Measure 1 by nearly 16 percentage points. The measure will increase the minimum wage in three steps over the next two and a half years, reaching $15 per hour in July 2027. It also mandates paid sick leave for all Alaska workers, and bars employers from requiring workers to attend meetings on political and religious issues.

The director of the Alaska Division of Elections says that the recount of a narrowly defeated ballot measure will likely begin Wednesday. The division certified general election results Saturday. They showed that the ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries lost 49.

Alaska’s top-four ranked-choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.

Republican Nick Begich has won the state’s U.S. House race, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Begich, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the seat that Republican Rep.

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby found that there was a hung jury in the trial of former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux.

Former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux's long-delayed election misconduct case ended Monday with a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury. State prosecutors could retry the case. Patty Sullivan, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Law,

The judge presiding over the trial of former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux over alleged violations of state elections law declared a mistrial on Monday after the jury deadlocked. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby found that there was a hung jury in the trial,

Under the proposal, Anchorage would hold municipal elections every two years instead of every year. That means Assembly, School Board and mayoral terms, instead of lasting three years as they do now,

Twelve jurors are set to decide whether former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is guilty of election misconduct after her long-awaited trial concluded Wednesday. LeDoux was accused by state prosecutors in 2020 of encouraging people who did not live in her district to vote for her in the 2014 and 2018 primary and general elections.

Election reform backers argue that party-focused systems exclude swaths of independent voters who do not identify with any political party.