Guest Editorial: Trump's post about Alaska's election laws has a rank smell

Alaskans in November will decide for the third time on ranked-choice voting. They approved it in 2020, rejected an initiative in 2024 to repeal it, and now will vote this fall on another repeal initiative.

The opponents are persistent, and they are good at raising money to run petition signature drives. But that doesn’t mean they are right.

The successful 2020 ranked-choice ballot measure made big changes for the better in the state’s election laws. It eliminated partisan primaries in favor of an open primary, where the top four vote-getters advance to the November general election.

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