Pat Race 🍕<p>The folks trying to rollback elections in Alaska to the bad old days of closed primaries have turned in their petition books. </p><p>Sixty days for Division of Elections to certify and probably some arguing about invalid signatures but this will be a huge issue this year if it gets on the ballot.</p><p>I'd very much like to keep our current elections system in place. If we're going to make changes, they need to be forward looking, not a wholesale repeal. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/akleg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>akleg</span></a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/akgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>akgov</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2024/01/12/ranked-choice-voting-opponents-file-petition-in-quest-to-overturn-alaskas-voting-system/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">adn.com/politics/2024/01/12/ra</span><span class="invisible">nked-choice-voting-opponents-file-petition-in-quest-to-overturn-alaskas-voting-system/</span></a></p>