The Division of Elections counted another 17,000 ballots on Friday, and while overall results did not change, there are three races to watch today, as more ballots get counted:
Congressional race: The lead Nick Begich has over Rep. Mary Peltola has shrunk slightly to 9,175. Begich has gone from 49.66% of the vote to 48.88%. There have been 312,070 votes counted in this race. Begich has 152,545 and Peltola has 143,370.
Ballot Measure 2: The repeal of the ranked-choice voting scheme now in place in Alaska tightened to a 1,676-vote advantage for the repeal. There have been 304,154 votes counted in this race. Yes to repeal is 152,915, while No is at 151,239. 50.28 to 49.72, less than a .56% difference.
This is nearly a mirror image of the ballot measure in 2020 that installed ranked-choice voting. That year, voters approved the scheme by 50.55% of the vote, while this year, the repeal of ranked-choice is winning by that margin.
District 18 Alaska House: The lead that Democrat Cliff Groh has over Republican challenger David Nelson has shrunk to 10 votes. There have been 3,419 votes counted. Groh has 1,713 and Nelson has 1,703; there were three write-in votes.