Alaska Senate Race: How the Nov. 18 Ranked-Choice Count Works (Peltola vs. Sullivan)

Описание: As of Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, Alaska's U.S. Senate race between Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan had not been called. In the last first-choice results posted by the Alaska Division of Elections (Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 4), Peltola had 102,962 votes and Sullivan 102,325, a 637-vote lead, with Gerald Heikes at 4,846 and Daniel J. Sullivan at 3,600; up to roughly 60,000 ballots were still uncounted as of Nov. 7 (Anchorage Daily News). This video walks through Alaska Statutes AS 15.15.350, the law for the ranked-choice tabulation expected on Nov. 18, plus this week's count schedule (early and questioned ballots Nov. 10, U.S. mail ballots due Nov. 13, overseas ballots due Nov. 18, target certification Nov. 25) and the Peltola campaign's public-records lawsuit over rejected absentee ballots. The worked example shows how the method works; it is not a prediction.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 The law, word for word
1:07 The count, as of Nov. 8
2:06 Round by round
3:51 What early records show
4:30 Ballots still to come
5:29 The campaigns
6:48 What we're watching next
7:22 Recap

Sources: Alaska Division of Elections; Alaska Statutes AS 15.15.350 (via FindLaw and Justia); Anchorage Daily News; Alaska Public Media; Alaska's News Source; alaskanews.com; Alaska Story; The Hill; WABI; Votebeat; FairVote (cast vote record analysis; FairVote advocates ranked-choice voting).

Photos: public domain / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons, except as credited.
Photo credits (CC): Alaska State Capitol in snow, James Brooks, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons: 210103 Snowy capitol.jpg).
Narration uses an AI voice.

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