Three candidates appear likely to advance to the August runoff. But the fourth is still uncertain, and tens of thousands of votes remain uncounted. We answer burning questions about how Alaska’s special and regular U.S. House elections could play out.
Ballot envelopes from the special primary election for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat are prepared to be opened at the Alaskq Division of Elections Region II office in Anchorage on Monday. , and officials have already tallied more than 100,000 votes.
The special primary, where voters chose one of 48 candidates on the ballot, was Saturday; the special general, where voters will rank the top four candidates from the primary, is set for Aug. 16. Ballots will still be counted as long as they were postmarked by Saturday and arrive by June 21 — which means that thousands more, or even tens of thousands, could still be added to the final tally.
she’s confident that result will hold when the state tallies the 30,000 or more remaining uncounted ballots. “When you put the two of them together, they win,” said Mike Porcaro, a GOP media consultant and talk radio host. “If we had a traditional campaign, where people started going after each other, it doesn’t do either one of them any good.”
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