Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the leading candidate for governor, just barely crested the important 50% mark in the latest election results the Alaska Division of Elections released Thursday.
His nearest challenger, Republican business owner Bernadette Wilson, has 28.7%.
The results Thursday added 5,723 early, absentee and questioned ballots to the total, primarily from Southeast. The Associated Press estimates that only 12% remain to be counted. Ballots sent from overseas have until Nov. 18, which is also when the last ballots will be counted.
If Kreiss-Tomkins still has more than half the vote by then, he’ll win the four-way race, without a tabulation of ranked
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