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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: MayflowerMadam
I know... I'm emoting, although a Constitutional Convention sure sounds great to me. I know Mark Levin has been pushing for a CC for many years.

I've seen RCV in action in Maine, and it is FRIGHTENING how it easily weeds out good Republican candidates and installs democRATs.

The state of Alaska must somehow reverse RCV. Alaska is still a RED state.

41 posted on 08/17/2022 3:39:34 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

Begich should drop out.

I’m sure the DS cabal have warned him to stay in....to split the vote...for the Dem.


42 posted on 08/17/2022 3:42:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: nutmeg

Why are the Alaska election officials hiding the current 2nd and 3rd place votes . Begich is now third. How does the 2nd place votes look from him.


43 posted on 08/17/2022 3:42:41 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: nutmeg

“How the hell did this sh*t RCV pass in the red state of Alaska??”

Liberal out-of-state PACs spent big money on propaganda (FAR more than was spent against the ballot proposal in 2020) and fooled just enough illiterate voters in Alaska to get RCV approved. The ballot measure passed 50.5% for it to 49.5% against it.

In order to get rid of it, probably there will have to be another vote.

Maine has had RCV for some elections since 2018, but Alaska — *because* it is considered to be a “red” state — is now serving as a model for the effectiveness (according to liberals) of Rigged Choice Voting.

It appears to be VERY effective as far as liberals are concerned, so don’t be surprised if Democrats and RINOs work together in other states to get RCV into law everywhere they can possibly do so.


44 posted on 08/17/2022 3:50:21 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: MayflowerMadam

Elder Nick and Mark were Dhimmicraps, if I remember correctly. Which tells me this guy is probably a RINO.


45 posted on 08/17/2022 4:01:09 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

You’re probably right. One of them — Mark, probably — and his wife used to shop in a furniture store where my friend worked. They were quite odd, according to him.


46 posted on 08/17/2022 4:14:48 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Peoples second choice that voted for Begich, will mostly be Palin. Sure, there will be some people that only marked 1 choice for Begich, a few that would put the Dem in second; but the vast majority will have Palin as second choice.
I’m pretty sure Palin is gonna get it.


47 posted on 08/17/2022 4:25:57 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Mark was the guy who got his seat after the phony indictment of Ted Stevens.


48 posted on 08/17/2022 4:27:19 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Nick Begich is the grandson of former Dhimmicrap Rep. Nick Begich and the nephew of former DemoKKKrat Senator Mark Begich.


49 posted on 08/17/2022 4:29:57 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

My timeline is probably off. I left there in the late ‘80s and didn’t pay much attention to the politics there since then.


50 posted on 08/17/2022 4:29:59 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: eeriegeno

Too many RINOs in AK to be optimistic


51 posted on 08/17/2022 4:33:19 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Jane Long
Begich should drop out.

I’m sure the DS cabal have warned him to stay in....to split the vote...for the Dem.

I totally agree!

52 posted on 08/17/2022 10:15:55 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: PermaRag
The ballot measure passed 50.5% for it to 49.5% against it.

OMG. That's so depressing. I can't believe so many idiots fell for this. It truly is "Rigged" Choice Voting.

Alaska — *because* it is considered to be a “red” state — is now serving as a model for the effectiveness (according to liberals) of Rigged Choice Voting.

It appears to be VERY effective as far as liberals are concerned, so don’t be surprised if Democrats and RINOs work together in other states to get RCV into law everywhere they can possibly do so.

That's EXACTLY what I'm afraid of, and I have no doubt the democRATs and RINOs will try this. This BS needs to be stopped in its tracks before it hits any more states.

Thank you so much for your very informative comments. I hate RCV, but now at least I understand how it got passed in Alaska.

53 posted on 08/17/2022 10:24:26 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Dan in Wichita

“ I guess I don’t get it. Without the RCV, wouldn’t the Democrat have already won…”
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Nope, along with RCV also came the “jungle primary” (everybody participates in the same primary with the top 4 advancing to the RCV general election). Without these changes the Democrat would have merely won her party’s primary and would have competed with the ONE winner of the Republican primary which she would have lost.


54 posted on 08/18/2022 4:51:43 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: House Atreides

Thank you for clarifying that for me. I guess I was having a brain fart yesterday and everything was in a fog.


55 posted on 08/18/2022 5:22:12 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Ranked choice voting violates the one person one vote principle.🤔


56 posted on 08/23/2022 8:08:30 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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