Election Reform

<p>Alaska Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer improperly <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/electionreform.pdf">denied</a></strong> certification of a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to change the state’s election laws in several ways, including by replacing the state’s current party-based primary system with a nonpartisan primary and establishing ranked-choice voting in general elections, the state’s Supreme Court ruled. </p>

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer improperly denied certification of a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to change the state’s election laws in several ways, including by replacing the state’s current party-based primary system with a nonpartisan primary and establishing ranked-choice voting in general elections, the state’s Supreme Court ruled.

Meyer determined the initiative contained more than one subject in violation of the state’s Constitution, but a “plain reading” shows its components all fall under the single subject of “election reform.”

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