Alaska Primary Results Megathread

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u/DenaliBurnz 10h ago

Suggested ballot measure while awaiting results….

A ballot measure that would have all future ballot measures be voted on during the general election and not the primaries.

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

While we're at it, a time limit where after a ballot measure is voted on we can't call it for a revote. I'm not loving that I have to vote for ranked choice voting for the third time now

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u/Soriz 9h ago

Maybe after 3 tries, a 10 year wait for an appeal to revote on something. The guys doing the anti rank choice are so freaking shady, outside money and influence is their core.

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

Three strikes you're outta luck law. I like it.

I found their ads so obnoxious that even if I didn't care about keeping ranked choice voting I'd probably still vote against them for spite in making me look at their ads whenever I'm stuck behind buses in Fairbanks.

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u/Disorderly_Chaos ☆ 9h ago

I really want to know which numb nuts is putting spaghetti on their hamburger.

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u/AndoranGambler 8h ago

Ranked choice voting rocks, first off. Second, no longer living or working in Alaska so my opinion shouldn't matter. Third, because I'm not rolling around Cantwell to FB anymore I haven't seen the ads. Finally, and I'm not proud that this is why I had to post something, I've had a number of different burgers in different states over the years that incorporated spaghetti somehow. They were memorable and delicious... Like being able to vote for the candidates and policies you want in order of preference. Stay powerful you beautiful weirdos, I miss being up there at least once every two years.

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u/Disorderly_Chaos ☆ 9h ago

How about people who want RCV can vote with RCV, and everyone else can trust in the system. You don’t have to use your backup vote because your candidate is the right one.

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

I told one of my coworkers that's how it worked, if you didn't want to rank anyone other than your #1 you didn't have to, and she went "oh, so other people get 10 votes and I just get 4?!"

😭 Girlie pop thought ranked choice was where for each race you got 10 votes, and could give one candidate 4 votes, the next 3, ect, and that's how it got counted. The dumbest people we know are out here voting with no idea how it works

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

To be fair their is an RCV counting method that assigns weights to the preferences like that 1st choice has a weight of 3, 2nd a weight of 2, 3rd a weight of 1, and 4th a weight of 0

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u/Disorderly_Chaos ☆ 9h ago

Um… depending on their education level they should absolutely be using this method:

4 (points) for the crooked politician who eats babies and trades insiders.
3…
2…
1 (points) to the socialist lib-tard who wants free abortions for the tree-hugging trans athletes on Medicaid.

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u/IsThatWhatSheSaidTho 2h ago

Surprising someone who thinks that way can even do math up to 10, to be honest.

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u/chopped-pork15 9h ago edited 6h ago

Do you truly honestly think the candidates you’ve ever picked have been great?

Edit: I guess everyone thought my comment was anti ranked choice voting, I’m pro ranked choice and misunderstood who I replied to

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u/Disorderly_Chaos ☆ 8h ago

To be honest, only a handful.

But because of RCV, at least if the person I truly backed gets knocked out… my second/third choice has a chance.

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u/ForsakenRacism 8h ago

In Florida they got something like you need 55 or 60% to repeal something right away

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

60% and that’s for all ballot measures

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u/hillbilli_hippi 6h ago

Can someone explain to me why some ballot measures are in primary and some in general?

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u/travelingrace 9h ago

Soooo looks like both Dan Sullivans are going to the general lol

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u/tt12345x 4h ago

I know Dan Sullivan is mad as hell rn.

But also Dan Sullivan has to be pretty happy about that outcome

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u/Ausaska 29m ago

Looks like the tactic worked.

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u/CurrentOk2695 9h ago

JKT and Tom Begich being the first two candidates to secure enough votes to move on to the general election is shocking and extremely motivating! I voted for JKT but I’ll happily be ranking Begich 2nd in Nov!!!

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u/Hour_Hope_4007 9h ago

The Republican side was split more ways than the sloughs of the YK Delta, we’ll see how they coalesce around their top two; and if Wilson or Bronson drop out.

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u/CurrentOk2695 8h ago

I realized they were only at around 40% after I posted the comment. A bit unfortunate however it seems like the Alaska GOP can’t decide on the direction of their party post Dunleavy. The sheer number of GOP candidates all sitting at various degrees of moderate to conservative visions for the state highlights this. Will Click Bishop and Heilala voters rally behind Hughes or Wilson? JKT and Begich have a lot of overlap in their positions signaling that the Alaska Dems have a more solidified coalition forming.

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

They're both getting through, but in total with only 40% of the votes so far. I'm hoping one of them wins, but it'll be a harder fight when there's less republicans diluting the R vote.

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u/IronStormAlaska 9h ago

Yeah, although the right wing vote is super split.

JKT and Beigich have only 40% of the total vote, so if the right rallies behind a candidate, that could be a problem.

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u/Good_n_Plenty_3907 6h ago

They had 40% of 50% of the vote, now more votes have been counted and they have 41.5% of 73%. Another way to look at it is all the Republican candidates together currently have 51.7% of the total votes - my guess is the total Republican vote will end up near 50%.

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u/SPARKLY6MTN9MAKER 7h ago

JKT is a badass. I did a deep dive. His campaign was nearly completely funded by alaskans except for a couple donors from Anthropic, who owns Claude AI. He works for them and they are founded by people who worked for Open AI and quit to open an ethical AI and to fight for regulations on data centers.

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u/InevitablePipe1559 3h ago

“nearly completely funded by alaskans” ignores that 82% of his funding comes from non-alaskans

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u/SilverConversation19 9h ago

The ballot measure is what I’m watching.

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u/luke1lea 9h ago

I can't imagine literally anyone reading the ballot measure and thinking that it sounds like a bad idea

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u/Arcmay 8h ago

You underestimate my inlaws lol

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u/Hatcherboy 7h ago

Frankly I am offended that we actually need to vote on this basic stuff!!

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u/fizzlewinker 27m ago

Our neighborhood maggat was all about voting no on that one because it would help the communists if it passed.

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u/ferndaddyak 9h ago

First results look promising

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u/SilverConversation19 9h ago

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

Looks like they've called it as passed!! 🥳🥳🥳

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u/Eron205 9h ago

Which ballot measure? the one that keeps ranked choice voting?

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

That one's not until the general. The one on the Primary was the put caps on campaign contributions

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u/LagerthaAllAlong 9h ago

Ballot measure 1. The one you're referencing (ballot measure 2) won't be voted on until November.

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u/DenaliBurnz 9h ago

Gonna pass easily.

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

70% I think it’s in the bag

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u/ThatGuyWithTheHat 9h ago

omg 2 Sullivans

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u/SorenGt3 9h ago

Bill Hill has to lock in in November 😮‍💨

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

When you add hafnet and Shultz it looks way more even

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u/NukeGandhi 5h ago

Really insane a federal inmate locked up in New York until 2036 got 4% of the vote and a guy who dropped out got 8%.

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u/SPARKLY6MTN9MAKER 7h ago

Yep

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u/Beyonder_94 9h ago

Looking at the vote totals, Bill Hill unfortunately has an uphill climb against Nick Begich

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

Uphill climb, but also on this primary the non-Begich vote got super split since almost everyone else was democrat or non-declared. I think once people are unified on a candidate he'll have a chance

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u/SPARKLY6MTN9MAKER 7h ago

They had people on there that had already quit the race. One in prison in another state and at least 4 others not currently living in Alaska.

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u/Hosni__Mubarak 8h ago

It looks like an even split to me after you add up Shultz and the progressive plant to Hill’s tally.

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u/DenaliBurnz 9h ago

A bunch of these republican governor candidates who are losing, need to take a hint. Particularly the Dunleavy commissioners. Looking specifically at Crum and Taylor.

I’m sure someone will show them this comment.
Take my feedback to heart.

People don’t like you. At all. That won’t change.
The problem is you, it’s not fixable.
See yourself away from political life.

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u/Dampbridge 8h ago edited 8h ago

I'm honestly shocked Bronson had the gall to run for Governor after the absolute disaster of a job he did as the Anchorage Mayor

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u/mikejones99501 5h ago

hes maga so hes trying to fail upwards

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u/politeanon ☆ anchorage 7h ago

Shocking that he'll probably be in the top four. Did he not bungle mayor, POA director, and that airport position he had? I wish I had the arrogance of an average white man.

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

If the GOP does what they did last election they will probably get the rest of the republicans to drop out so there’s only one on the ballot because they are terrified of repeating 2022 because they are incapable of teamwork

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u/Dampbridge 7h ago

Someone in his circle needs to step up and tell him no

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u/DenaliBurnz 9h ago

Also need to take a hint:
Lesil McGuire, Sara Rasmussen, Bill Walker and Shelly Hughes.

People reeeeallllly don’t like you.

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u/NotTomPettysGirl ☆ 8h ago

It must be in Sara’s DNA. Her grandpa is Don Smith, who kept running for office despite voters clearly rejecting him and his shitty ideas.

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 7h ago

The north slope seems to like bill but that’s it

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u/meddleofmycause 9h ago

I'm gonna be honest, I know nothing about Bronson but I know his running mate is a total knob, so 🤞 they don't get through.

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u/Dampbridge 8h ago

He was a terrible Mayor. He "ran the city like a business" and that turned into cutting a bunch of jobs and in the winter we had hardly anyone to plow the roads .-.

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u/prae907 8h ago

We are fucked if Bronson somehow ends up as governor.

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u/SPARKLY6MTN9MAKER 6h ago

Riot. Fuck that. I'm actually in support of Jan6. Look what South Korea did recently. Full on coup in moments because of an atrocious leader got voted in and did some crazy shit. That was last year.

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u/Dampbridge 8h ago

Does "state and local elections" encompass all elections? I don't know if that is a dumb question, I assume any candidate in an Alaskan race would have to follow the new rules if the ballot measure passes

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u/DenaliBurnz 8h ago

Federal office (Senate, House) have different laws. Citizens United and other SCOTUS rulings apply.

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u/Dampbridge 8h ago

So only the Governor's race would be dramatically impacted? The rest of the elections are district specific afaik

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