Alaska’s Special House Election Is Close

“With voting complete in Alaska’s special U.S. House race on Tuesday — the state’s first ranked choice election — Democrat Mary Peltola was leading Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III in early returns with the most first-place votes, but the winner won’t be known until the last ballots are counted later this month,” the Anchorage Daily News reports.

“Once the last ballots are counted — if no candidate crosses the 50% threshold needed to win under the state’s new ranked choice voting system — the candidate in last place will be eliminated and the second-place votes of that candidate’s supporters will be redistributed.”

Washington Post: “Where this goes from here, nobody knows. But Peltola far over-performed the primary results in June, in which she took just 10 percent of the vote.”