What type of Primary Election does the State of Alaska conduct?
The state in 2001 switched from a blanket primary — where all candidates are on a single ballot — to allowing political parties to choose whether they want a closed primary, an open primary or something in between. The new law required each political party to have its own ballot on which only its candidates could appear. A voter had to choose one ballot out of all those available. For the 2008 Primary Election, there were three ballots to choose from: an A-D-L ballot, Republican Party ballot, and Measures Only (MO) ballot. The A-D-L ballot had Alaska Democrat, Alaska Libertarian, and Alaskan Independence party candidates. The A-D-L ballot was available to all registered voters. The Republican ballot had only Republican candidates and was only open to registered Republicans or voters who were registered nonpartisan or undeclared. Both the A-D-L and Republican ballots also had the four primary ballot measures. The MO ballot was available to all voters. This just had the ballot measures
