The Alaska Division of Elections decided not to release early ranked choice tabulations in the special U.S. House race, so we won't know who won until Aug. 31. The top election official in Maine, which uses ranked voting, says there’s good reason to wait.
A voter casts his ballot at St. Patrick's Parish in Muldoon on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.
The three candidates on the ballot were Democratic former state lawmaker Mary Peltola, Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican businessman Nick Begich III. With thousands of ballots left to count, Peltola is currently in the lead with 38% of first-place votes; Palin is in second with nearly 32%; and Begich trails with 28.6% of the vote.
Former Alaska Gov. and U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin greets supporters and waves to motorists on the Parks Highway in Wasilla on August 16, 2022. Of Alaska’s 402 voting precincts, 131 rural and remote precincts report voting results by hand count. Those ballots must then be delivered to the Division of Elections before the votes can be tabulated.
In Maine’s 2018 U.S. House race — the state’s first ranked choice election — voters had to wait one week between election day and getting final results. That year, Maine’s incumbent U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin had more first-place votes than the other two candidates. Under ranked choice voting, his Democratic challenger, current Rep. Jared Golden, came from behind and prevailed once second-choice votes were taken into account.Bellows’ view is not shared by everyone.
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