We just got back from voting in our first "open" primary. Things were changed by referendum in 2020 so the parties do not have their own primaries. The purpose was to get Lisa Murkowski (current senior Senator) and Bill Walker (past governor who tried to sell Alaska to China) re/elected. The ballot measure was written in a confusing manner to baffle the voters who don't pay attention. In any case, all the people running for office were listed on one ballot, so it is conceivable that two people from the same party could be running against each other in the general election. It won't be two Democrats, however, since there was not a single Democrat listed on the ballot. Even candidates who are officers on the board of the Democratic Party of Alaska were listed as "Undeclared", "Independent", or "Non-Partisan". This is our first primary of this kind, but I have never seen this before. Perhaps even the Democrats don't want to be associated with Biden? The President is VERY unpopular here, so perhaps that is the reason. I didn't notice any Democrats listed as Republicans on the ballot, although they sometimes run that way in local races just as Republicans used to in the Deep South before Reagan.
we have that rank choice voting here in Maine....it's first use booted the incumbent Congressman and replaced him with someone whoo got less than 40% of vote....Renk-choice voting was invented by democRATS to prevent a Republican from winning an election...Apparently in Alaska the establishment(swamp) Republicans did the same thing
Some Republicans were involved, but it was outside interests from the Lower 48 (and perhaps foreign) who financed the campaign to get it through the voters. I believe the Republican Party has not endorsed Lisa Murkowski and has financed her leading opponent instead after she voted to remove Trump. She is a despicable person who doesn't deserve to be where she is. Her financing comes form outside the state and she represents the values of the so-called permanent political class, not Alaska.