Election officials finished recounting the results of Ballot Measure 2 on Monday, and the outcome remains unchanged.
Alaska will keep ranked choice voting and open primaries.
The repeal effort failed by 743 votes, or about a quarter of one percentage point, according to the Division of Elections. That’s almost exactly the margin reflected in official results certified late last month, which showed the measure failing by 737 out of more than 300,000 votes.
The Alaska Republican Party requested the recount and monitored vote-counting alongside the anti-repeal campaign, No On 2.
During the recount, election officials re-scanned ballots and took a closer look at ballots where the voter’s choice wasn’t clear. …