To the Editor

Open primaries and Rank Choice Voting work

To the Editor:

During election season, have you ever found yourself feeling stuck voting for someone you really don’t support… feeling like you are picking the candidate you dislike the least, or “the lesser of two evils” we might say? Well, a lot of your fellow Alaskans did and in 2020, the Rank Choice Voting (RCV) measure was passed and implemented. This law allowed for open primaries and ranked voting in general elections. How does that affect voters?

First, open primaries give us more choices than a closed primary because it allows all voters, reg...