How Alaska's ranked choice voting system works

What the coverage shows

The coverage largely converges on Alaska’s ballot controversy around “Decoy Dan” and the broader debate over ranked-choice voting. Fox News foregrounds updates about a second Dan Sullivan appearing on ballots and says the DOJ has asked a federal judge to halt certification if Mary Peltola wins, while Ben Shapiro frames it as an investigation into a Democrat campaign and ties it to other election-related stories. National Review and Reason both use the episode to argue about ranked-choice voting, with Reason saying the system is itself on the ballot and National Review calling it “a rank idea.”

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.