{"id":8110,"date":"2022-06-14T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:37:30","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-special-election-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8110","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About the Special Election In Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the primary is plenty interesting on its own. First of all, it will winnow a field of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.alaska.gov\/Core\/candidatelistspecprim.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">48 candidates<\/a>(!) down to four. Why four and not two? Because following the passage of an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/17\/alaska-becomes-second-state-to-approve-ranked-choice-voting-as-ballot-measure-2-passes-by-1\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">election-reform ballot measure<\/a>&nbsp;in 2020, Alaska now uses a unique top-four primary system whereby all candidates (regardless of party) run on the same ballot and the top four finishers advance to the general election. (In a further twist, the general election will also use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/maine-is-trying-out-a-new-way-to-run-elections-but-will-it-survive-the-night\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked-choice voting<\/a>.) &#8220;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-special-election-in-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-special-election-in-alaska\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the primary is plenty interesting on its own. First of all, it will winnow a field of 48 candidates(!) down to four. Why four and not two? Because following the passage of an election-reform ballot measure in 2020, Alaska now uses a unique top-four primary system whereby all candidates (regardless of party) run on the same ballot and the top four finishers advance to the general election. (In a further twist, the general election will also use ranked-choice voting.) &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1167,372,198,428,956,658,479],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-alaska","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-electoral-system","tag-vote-by-mail-2","tag-vote-by-mail","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}