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Sarah should just have stayed down in America and left Alaska politics to Alaskans who actually live in Alaska.
No. People chose the Democrat over the other Republican as their second choice so the Democrat won. One of the Republicans should’ve dropped out.
To this day I don’t understand how ranked choice voting works. IIt just makes no sense to me.
No. In ranked choice voting, the voter chooses their first pick from all of the candidates on the ballot. They then choose their second pick from the remaining candidates. They then pick their third choice, etc.
If no candidate gets 50% + 1 first pick votes, then the lowest candidate is eliminated, and the voter's second choice is added to the above totals.
So for example, Mary Peltola got 47%, Palin 27%, Begich 24%, and Bye 2%. Nobody got 50% + 1, so Bye is eliminated, and all of the people who voted for Bye has their second choice vote counted.
If nobody has 50% + 1, then Begich is eliminated and the voters for Begich have their second choice counted, and any Bye voters who had Begich as their second choice then have their third choice counted.
This goes on until one candidate gets to 50% + 1 votes.
Since there were to Republicans in the race, but only one Democrat, the two Republicans got 51% of the vote, but split between two candidates. So the lone Democrat ended up winning.
No they get the 2nd choice of the eliminated candidate. So unough Begich voters prefered the democrat as their 2nd choice. This was predictable from the results of the primary.
that is the equivalent of voting MORE THAN ONCE!!!
I had to look it up as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
More BS.
One man, one vote, on one day, in person, on paper. Can’t vote because of XYZ reason on that day, or in person? To bad.
Stop all the manipulative games.
Election manipulation is as old as this country and the term Gerrymandering is a good example. It’s always been the case. But with all the electronic voting, mail in ballots, early voting, etc today, we open more and more doors for FRAUD.
Why not allow people to vote on their smart phones? Think of how convenient that would be?!?!?
No- it needs to go back to the basics: one day, on paper, in person, with ID and a finger print on the voting card.
The reason folks resist this isn’t because they care about someone who can’t vote for this or that reason. They WANT the system to be riddled with ways you can manipulate it and those that have the best organization in place to manipulate of course are the ones pushing for all these schemes the most.
Nope. If your candidate doesn’t win, they drop them and go with the second choice.
If she came in third on the first go ‘round, she is dropped.
If she made it past the first round, then her name wasn’t the second choice on many ballots.
She is finished.
McCain threw Palin under the bus just like he did to his fellow POWs back in Vietnam.
Did Palin really lose because of ranked choice, or because the other GOPer was still in the race???
Palin has not lost (yet)
The second choice votes have not yet been counted. If enough of the Begich and Bye voters preferred Palin over Peltola then Palin will win. If enough Begich/Bye voters prefer Peltola over Palin (or don’t express a preference) then Peltola will win. It works exactly how a run off election would work (ranked choice voting is also referred to as instant run-off)
Is she out? She’s currently in 2nd place... with 20% of the vote still out... the Democrat is under 50%... so is the assumption here that 10% or more of the folks who voted for the other Republican will select the democrat as their second choice?
Just when you think they’ve invented every form of fraud, here they come up with another.