Maybe I’m missing something or I’m just old school, but I remember learning to pick our favorites and rank stuff by preference back in kindergarten.
Ballot envelopes from the special primary election for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat are prepared to be opened at the State Division of Elections Region II office in Anchorage on Monday, June 13, 2022.
I have lived in Alaska for more than 44 years and have felt disenfranchised by the party primary system and a process that forced unaffiliated voters to choose between the lesser of two evils. The party primary process inherently lends itself to candidates who appeal to more extreme ends of the political spectrum. The result is general election ballots with few good choices, and victorious candidates who look very little like the people they were elected to represent.
There have been many superficial arguments floated by those who support Ballot Measure 2 and oppose open primaries and ranked choice voting. One argument is that the system benefits Democratic candidates. As proof, they point to the results of the 2022 election. Now don’t get me wrong, I was not particularly thrilled with the results of 2022 either, but there is no inherent bias in the system that favors Democrats or Republicans.
But the argument that bothers me most is the one where the political parties claim they have a “right” to select the only candidate that will appear on the ballot to be the standard bearer for their political ideology. Nowhere does the Alaska Constitution or any other state law give political parties and the party system the sole right to function as the gatekeeper on who can and cannot be on the ballot.
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