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Rank Choice Voting and Mail-In Ballots Debut in Deep Red Alaska Where Democrat May Now Steal US House Seat from Sarah Palin
The Gateway Pundit ^ | August 17, 2022 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/17/2022 11:52:31 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Republicans in Alaska passed rank choice voting in 2020. This confusing system is only being pushed by RINOS and radicals in conservative red states. It allows Democrats to even the playing field when they have no chance of winning.

Republicans also passed mail-in voting.

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Last night Sarah Palin ran in two races in Alaska.

The former governor ran in the 2022 primary race for US House of Representatives. She also ran in the special election to finish out Rep. Don Young’s term in the current US House of Representatives. Young died earlier this year.

Sarah Palin may lose the election depending on who the third place challenger’s voters picked for their second choice.

How can this even be legal?

Oh, and the race will not be decided until the end of the month because Republicans just passed mail-in voting!

The RINOs just tossed Alaska to the Democrats!

TPM attempted to explain the confusion in the Alaska elections this morning.

This is all a little confusing: There are two elections in play — both held Tuesday — along with a host of changes, implemented this year, to how Alaska conducts its elections, including a shift to ranked-choice. Here’s what you need to know.

Palin — along with Nicholas Begich, Republican scion of a major Alaskan Democratic family, and former state Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat who would be the first Alaska Native in the state’s congressional delegation — is competing to finish out the Young’s term in a special election. Independent Al Gross, who ran for Senate in 2020, also qualified for the general election but dropped out.

Voters have ranked their choices, but the winner won’t be clear until at least the end of August as mail-in ballots trickle in and officials tally the votes.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: alaska; goprinos; hoftgarbage; hyberbolicheadline; infantiletantrum; sarahpalin
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I wonder what happens if a candidate wins the special election but not the election for 2022.


21 posted on 08/17/2022 12:52:13 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Begich is from a longtime Democrat family. One of his family members once held the seat.


22 posted on 08/17/2022 12:53:54 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

“Begich is from a longtime Democrat family. One of his family members once held the seat.”

I was living in Alaska when Congressman Nick Begich died in a plane crash in ‘72.


23 posted on 08/17/2022 12:55:59 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Hostage
You’re not allowed to mark only one, or two; got to mark three choices, or your ballot goes pfft!

Kelly Tshibaka was explaining on Clay & Buck yesterday that this is not true.

24 posted on 08/17/2022 12:56:46 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

His dad?


25 posted on 08/17/2022 12:57:52 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

” Without the RCV, wouldn’t the Democrat have already won? “

Without Rigged Choice Voting there would have been *separate* primaries as there always had been before. Then Palin (or Begich) would have advanced to meet the Democrat 1-on-1 in the general election.

Begich would mop the floor with Peltola. Palin may have been able to win a 1-on-1 matchup but she is so polarizing that it would without any shadow of a doubt have been closer than it would if it was Begich vs. Peltola.

Now under RCV it is forced to be a 3-way race. And if Begich voters hate Palin enough (Alaska will let us know when they’re done “counting” in 2 weeks) that they either left their #2 choice blank or, worse yet, voted for the Eskimo, the liberals who foisted RCV onto the ignorant voters of Alaska in 2020 will celebrate like there’s no tomorrow.


26 posted on 08/17/2022 1:00:14 PM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

No Dan. See #17.

In a general election with a 2-party primary system, in the general there will be only one Democrat, one Republican on the ballot.

There can be a write-in candidate, but usually they carry small percentages.

In Alaska, a ‘tolerable’ write-in can move ahead past intolerable R and D candidates. This is how it worked for Murkowski previously.

However, if the previously tolerable write-in becomes intolerable, there’s no chance to win in a primary-general system. But an RCV system gives someone like Murkowski a chance.

A primary-general election with write-ins, DOESN’T PREVENT splitting the vote.

But an RCV election GYARANTEES the Vote will be split.

The only system that can guarantee the Vote can’t be split, is a system that allows only the top two candidates on the ballot, with no write-ins. But can’t do that, can’t have it.


27 posted on 08/17/2022 1:03:17 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

You make your vote count in ranked choice BS by making ONLY ONE choice. If you mark the 2,3,4 etc. you are diluting your vote. Mark ONE ONLY on your ranked choice ballot.


28 posted on 08/17/2022 1:05:46 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: crusty old prospector
Deep Red?

If not for the "Indigenous" vote, it would be.

29 posted on 08/17/2022 1:08:36 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: TBP

Probably grandfather. Not sure.


30 posted on 08/17/2022 1:09:32 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: TBP

Probably grandfather. Not sure.
There was a Mark Begich in politics up there, too.


31 posted on 08/17/2022 1:10:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: TBP

It varies.

If it’s not true, that’s a good thing AS LONG AS VOTERS ARE AWARE that marking a 2nd choice may result in splitting their vote.

So, it requires education or else it’s a problem.

But printing a warning on a ballot like:

WARNING! MARKING A 2ND CHOICE CAN RESULT IN SPLITTUNG THE VOTE!

defeats the purpose of rank choice voting.

The best reason for rejecting RCV schemes is to become aware of the dark money behind it, pushing it on voters as harmless, when it’s a scam to overcome popular MAGA candidates in favor of the ‘moderate’ candidate.


32 posted on 08/17/2022 1:12:00 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: PermaRag; Hostage

Thank you both for clarifying the folly of RCV. My brain was working in reverse today.


33 posted on 08/17/2022 1:20:47 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: BigEdLB

I can’t find the current results. One rather confusing report from NPR is showing Palin the winner of the special election for Young’s seat with 99% of the votes counted, showing Palin with 27% over Begich with 19.1

It’s confusing because the page is dated June 11, 2022???

NBC is reporting Palin (27%) over Begich (19.1%) in the (R) primary


34 posted on 08/17/2022 1:22:03 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Sarah should have moved out of that whack state years ago.


35 posted on 08/17/2022 1:55:37 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

NP Dan.

What it’s all about.


36 posted on 08/17/2022 2:20:48 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Macho MAGA Man; LS; Jane Long; NautiNurse; Kathy in Alaska; MayflowerMadam; Fai Mao; SamAdams76; ...
When I saw the VERY confusing returns from Alaska late last night, this was my fear. The democRAT candidate got more votes than Sarah Palin. And the 'RAT got more votes than the other GOP candidate, Nick Begich.

So it appears that Palin and Begich are splitting the GOP vote -- which gives each of them fewer votes than the democRAT.

So... the democRAT may very well steal that US House seat from Palin or Begich??

Ranked Choice voting should be outlawed somehow. Doesn't seem legal or Constitutional to me.

37 posted on 08/17/2022 3:30:26 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: PermaRag
Now under RCV it is forced to be a 3-way race. And if Begich voters hate Palin enough (Alaska will let us know when they’re done “counting” in 2 weeks) that they either left their #2 choice blank or, worse yet, voted for the Eskimo, the liberals who foisted RCV onto the ignorant voters of Alaska in 2020 will celebrate like there’s no tomorrow.

How the hell did this sh*t RCV pass in the red state of Alaska?? It passed in Maine, but Maine is a blue state.

Can RCV be reversed somehow in Alaska before 2024?

38 posted on 08/17/2022 3:33:55 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

“Ranked Choice voting should be outlawed somehow. Doesn’t seem legal or Constitutional to me.”

Unfortunately, each state is responsible for it’s own election code, policies, and procedures. It seems that if we ever do convene a Constitutional Convention, which is being discussed, some basic additions could be made, one of which is the requirement of an official photo ID. Same-day/one-day voting. No machines. (It’ll probably never happen, though.)


39 posted on 08/17/2022 3:36:36 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Hostage
The best reason for rejecting RCV schemes is to become aware of the dark money behind it, pushing it on voters as harmless, when it’s a scam to overcome popular MAGA candidates in favor of the ‘moderate’ candidate.

RCV is completely un-American! Somehow -- at least in the red state of Alaska -- this MUST be reversed, never to return again. If not, it's gonna be foisted on voters in just about every state. It's already worked like a charm in Maine in pushing out Republican Congressional candidates.

40 posted on 08/17/2022 3:36:55 PM PDT by nutmeg
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