"Vote, vote, vote and vote for me twice, literally," Peltola told supporters in Juneau days before the election in urging them to turn out and to tell their friends to vote. If successful, she would be the first Alaska Native woman elected to the House. She has cast herself as a "regular Alaskan" and consensus builder. Peltola, a former state legislator, most recently worked at a commission whose goal is to rebuild salmon resources on Alaska's Kuskokwim River. Palin, meanwhile, has questioned Begich's Republican credentials. wvpHY0AGOZ- former father-in-law and his wife held a fundraiser on the final weekend of the race for Begich, the Anchorage Daily News reported. TONIGHT: Jim and Faye Palin, Sarah Palin’s ex-in-laws, are hosting an election eve party for Nick Begich, who is running against Palin for Alaska’s lone seat in the House. The special election is a traditional election with in-person voting, and voters were able to request absentee ballots. In a recent interview with Steve Bannon, Palin described it as the "newfangled, weirdo voting system we have where it's mail in-only ballots" and ranked voting. She said the new, voter-approved election system creates confusion and should be changed. Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee and a former Alaska governor, renewed her "drill, baby, drill" calls for increased oil production and said she would use her connections to the benefit of Alaska. The four candidates with the most votes in each primary race advance to the November general election. He died in March.Īlaska's elections process, approved by voters in 2020 and used for the first time this year, pairs open primaries, in which all candidates in a race are on the ballot together, with ranked vote general elections. Young, a Republican, held the state's only House seat for 49 years.
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The three candidates competing in that race are Republicans Palin and Nick Begich, and Democrat Mary Peltola. 31 to know whether Palin or one of her opponents prevailed in the special election. House, governor and lieutenant-governor and state legislative seats are on opposite sides of a two-sided ballot. The special election and regular primaries for U.S. House election in which Sarah Palin seeks a return to elected office. Alaska voters get their first shot at using ranked voting in a statewide race Tuesday in a special U.S.
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