Cato Institute (8/16/22): Alaska’s Promising Voting Experiment

Alaskans will go to the polls today to cast votes using an innovative electoral format that deserves notice and perhaps emulation in other states. It employs a two‐​stage process in which the first stage — an all‐​party combined primary to winnow the field down to four candidates — is followed up by a general election employing ranked‐​choice voting (RCV).