Alaska shows independent streak, adopts ranked-choice voting

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Alaskans approved an election reform measure earlier this month that will make the state just the second in the U.S. to adopt ranked-choice voting.

The ballot measure narrowly passed with 50.49% voting in favor of it, Alaska's Division of Elections announced Tuesday. Instead of just picking one candidate, ranked-choice voting allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third and so on.

If one candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, then that candidate wins. If not, the candidate with the least amount of first-choice votes is eliminated, and the ballots that ranked the eliminated candidate as the first choice would go towards the voters' second-ranked candidate.This process continues until a.