Alaska usually not big on second chances for governors
State has reelected executives at lowest rate in the nation.
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State has reelected executives at lowest rate in the nation.
Print article When Maine’s pioneering attempt to install ranked-choice voting was met with a flurry of lawsuits, Alaskans expected the same thing after voters here approved a sweeping election-reform law in November. So far, that hasn’t happened. Only a single lawsuit has been filed in state court to block implementation of the state’s new election system, approved as Ballot Measure 2, and no challenges have been filed in federal court. Alaska’s first election under the new system is more than a year away, but one candidate has already begun a campaign to challenge incumbent U.S. S...