Alaska judge to expedite ruling on campaign ethics violations by ranked choice voting opponents

An Alaska judge will rule months before the November election on the legality of a decision by state campaign regulators to punish opponents of Alaska’s voting system. The review follows an appeal of the decision last month. The Alaska Public Offices Commission ruled in January that leaders of an effort to repeal Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice voting system violated state law when they funneled their campaign money through an organization registered as a church in Washington state. APOC commissioners fined the leaders of the ballot effort more than...