This year, when so much hinges on how voters’ ranked their second or third choices, it’s much more unclear how close races will shake out. Would-be legislators have just had to wait it out.
Previously, on election night or shortly after, many candidates had a pretty good sense of where they stood.
Alaskans are used to waiting awhile for election results because the deadline to receive absentee ballots is about two weeks after Election Day. Now, it’s also the day ranked choice tabulation kicks in in races where no candidate has more than 50% of the vote.“I’ve been prepared all along that it would take a while,” she said.
It’s a similar situation for Maxine Dibert, a Democrat running for state House for the first time in Fairbanks. She has just under 50% of first-choice votes, and the rest is split between her Republican opponents, incumbent Bart LeBon and Kelly Nash.Dibert said she knew it was going to be close. In 2018, LeBon won his race by aFor LeBon to win again, he’d need a significant amount of Nash’s second-choice votes.
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