This piece is almost an advocacy piece -- against RCV and Final Four in Alaska. "Outside dark money poured in" to support it in the 2024 repeal effort and it's an "unusual voting method". You should read for yourself, but the fact that there will be a second repeal effort in Alaska shows how we still have an uphill climb.

The first phase of the second attempt to repeal ranked-choice voting has passed its first big hurdle — getting the language of the petition approved by the Alaska Division of Elections.

A group of Alaskans submitted the application for the petition in December, and the division had until Friday, Feb. 14, to give them an answer. The answer came on Friday afternoon — it’s a “go.”

This repeal is similar to the last attempt in 2024, which nearly passed, even though the Outside dark money poured into the state to preserve the jungle primary and ranked-choice general election system that has been used in Alaska since 2022.

In this new petition, the language is a straight repeal of the 2020 ballot measure that put the unusual voting method in place.

Read more here.