Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 10 - Labor Relations
Chapter 97 - Collective Bargaining Among Public Employees
Article 1 - Certification
8 AAC 97.190 - Runoff election

(a) The labor relations agency will conduct a runoff election if an election in which the ballot provides for not less than three choices results in no choice receiving a majority of the valid ballots cast, and all objections filed have been disposed of.

(b) Employees who are eligible to vote in the original election and who are still employed in the bargaining unit as of the date of the runoff election are eligible to vote in the runoff election. For mail ballot or electronic ballot runoff elections, employees are eligible to vote if they were eligible to vote in the original election and they are still employed in the bargaining unit on the date the mail ballots or electronic ballots are counted in the runoff election.

(c) The ballot in the runoff election shall provide for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of votes in the original election.

(d) If there are objections to the conduct of the runoff election, the objections will be processed in accordance with 8 AAC 97.170.

(e) The labor relations agency will issue a certification of the results of the runoff election, including certification of a representative, if appropriate.