The Alaska Republican Party, during its quarterly meeting that took place in Fairbanks on Saturday, passed a resolution that recommends Alaskans vote “Yes” on Ballot Measure 2, which would restore the voting procedures that were in place before voters approved ranked-choice voting methods in 2020.
Alaska has been part of a push by Outside dark money coming from groups like UniteUs.org and FairVote.org to get ranked-choice voting in place in every state. These groups understand the Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.
Ranked choice enables actual sane candidates, because people are allowed to vote for people who aren’t insane without costing the lesser evil (because primaries massively benefit the most liberal/conservative in their respective parties) their vote.
Third party candidates are wasted votes now. Ranked choice lets you vote for them, then if they’re eliminated, you still get to vote for the less bad person.