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...votes could have actually mattered. That's because Democrat Mark Begich needed 45 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff election - a threshold he met by fewer than 20 votes. Sisk is chief financial officer for a medical clinic. On her voter...
...I know that Alaska voters will pass it? A majority of your population bears the cost of low voter turnout local runoff elections (Anchorage and Fairbanks.) This would save their cities the direct cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...of preferential voting system. Utah uses instant runoff elections for congressional candidates in primaries only...would have brought a majority vote without expensive runoff elections at taxpayers' expense and it would allow minority...
...fill a vacant Assembly seat. Scott and Smith each won more than 40 percent of the vote, eliminating the need for a runoff election. Stacie Turner and Judy Erekson ran unopposed and will return to the Haines Borough School Board. In Skagway, Mayor...
...Fujimori. In 2004, tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, who ended up winning a revote...
...approval. The measure was proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some questions, such as whether the timing of a runoff election could keep the governor's office vacant too long, were raised by the Division of Election's Gail Fenumiai. She...
...Democrat Mark Begich in Tuesday's runoff election. With all precincts counted...Democrat Mark Begich in Tuesday's runoff election. Wuerch wins Anchorage mayoral...Democrat Mark Begich in Tuesday's runoff election. Home>Archives> Wuerch wins...
...since 1947. In Louisiana's blanket primary system, the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, go on to a runoff election. Blanket-primary supporters in California said the system would encourage voter turnout and lead to the nomination...
...the unions or decide to remain unorganized. If a three-choice ballot doesn't result in a majority winner, a runoff election would be held between the two most popular options. A previous effort to unionize UA office workers was made in 1998...
...initiatives - one to raise alcohol taxes, one to require runoff elections and one to treat drug abuse as more of a medical...Backers of a proposal that would create an ``instant runoff'' election said they hope the Legislature will pass a bill having...