Some Alaska voters said today they were frustrated with the new election system, which had them sorting through long lists of candidates and weighing whether to rank or not to rank.
Courtney Newman, an election official, helps a voter turn in her ballot on Tuesday, Aug 16. 2022, at Turnagain United Methodist Church in Anchorage.
Still, on Tuesday, voter turnout was pretty steady, according to poll worker Debra Caldera at Turnagain United Methodist Church in Anchorage, one of Alaska’s dozens of in-person voting locations. “This is a busy precinct,” Caldera said. “One of the biggest in the city. And I would say that we have about what we had normally here.”Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, who’s charged with overseeing Alaska elections, was out Tuesday morning visiting polling locations. He said Alaska’s first ranked choice election seemed to be going okay.In addition to the new system, Meyer said some voters have to contend with new districting and a bunch of new polling locations.
“The big one everyone’s, of course, going to be watching is the interim fill of Don Young’s seat, because now all of a sudden, they become the incumbent,” Meyer said. “So people will go in there and they’ll rank all these people, and what it’s doing is taking away a percentage,” Tinny said, outside of an Anchorage polling place Tuesday. “Why not just vote for one candidate?”Barbara Hole is another voter who isn’t very supportive of ranked choice voting. She voted at the same place as Tinny, and said she was taken aback by the vast number of names on her ballot. There are 22 candidates running in the U.S. House primary, 19 for U.S. Senate and 10 for governor.
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