The Juneau Assembly is mulling over a plan to implement a ranked choice voting system for local elections beginning next year.

At a Monday Committee of the Whole meeting, members unanimously forwarded an ordinance for public testimony and a vote on whether to implement the system.

Assembly member Ella Adkison proposed the ordinance . During a previous meeting, she said she thinks voters will support the change.

“I think that ranked choice voting, in this case, makes it a lot easier to build consensus in our community to fully express the nuances of every Juneauite’s vote,” she said.

Alaska uses a ranked choice voting system for statewide elections . It allows voters to rank candidates by preference in open primaries rather than partisan primaries. Proponents say the

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