 Well, Alaska has been well known for our independence streak. As a matter of fact, the right to privacy clause was adopted by Alaskans in the early 70s and ranked choice voting really honors that because it is about freedom and liberty when you go to vote. I am a lifelong registered Republican and for the first time in my adult life when I went to vote this past election, I had the opportunity to vote for the candidate I wanted rather than the candidate that the party told me to vote for. And to me, that's independence, that's freedom, that's what being Alaskans all about. My name is Andrew Howcro. We are in Anchorage, Alaska in beautiful Sand Lake and I am officially retired. The problem with the old system was it was tightly controlled by the political parties and that system was broken. Traditionally, in the close primary, you only have 20% of the voters that show up. There's very little oxygen in close primaries. So what ranked choice voting did was ranked choice voting kicked the doors open, right? So these conservative candidates or liberal candidates can still run, but you have the environment now where you have other avenues for other voices to be heard. And I think when you look back over Alaska and you look at the struggles that we've had, this state is at or near the bottom in everything from education and public safety to economic growth and economic development, if this state has any hope for the future, we have to retain ranked choice voting. You know, one of the wonderful outcomes of ranked choice voting was the new political environment that it created. We had two very high profile federal candidates. Both of them ran predominantly negative campaigns and in any other normal election cycle that would have won the day. But with ranked choice voting, you had multiple candidates in there which created additional oxygen without that environment. You would have had two races that were just nothing but very nasty campaigning. I think the bottom line with ranked choice voting over the last two years we've elected a far more moderate state government that's allowed us to move forward on some things and balance the budget. We re-elected a U.S. senator who has done amazing things, and I mean ranked choice voting, in my opinion, is what this state needs if we're going to have a future. And if we don't want choice, then we're going to go back to the last 40 years of having no choice, which has driven us to the bottom in pretty much every category that's important to the state.