Posted on 08/31/2022 5:23:31 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick
Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill Alaska's House seat for the remainder of 2022, according to unofficial results released by the Alaska Division of Elections, thwarting former Gov. Sarah Palin's bid at a political comeback -- at least for a few months. Peltola emerged as the victor Wednesday when Alaska's Division of Elections tabulated ranked-choice ballots in the state's first use of the system.
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ranked choice voter fraud...
Ranked choice is not an election.
That’s simply not how RCV works.
The poll that nailed the race showed that if Palin made it to the second place, she would lose 51-49. That’s about exactly what happened.
It also showed that if Begich had made it to second place, he would have won by 10 points.
Why? Because the people who voted for Begich first wanted a Republican to represent them, but if they couldn’t have Begich, they didn’t want Palin.
If Palin had finished third, a much larger portion of her votes would have went to Begich.
Palin is the weak link, because there are a larger portion of Begich first choice voters who simply can’t stand Palin, versus the other way around.
A rank result for sure.
Pathetic. They deserve to lose that seat. DeSantis showed us how to fight back and take charge in a state. Democrats taking advantage in Alaska?
Begich got fewer first round votes in both the primary and the special election compared to Palin.
He is the weaker candidate let him drop out.
Yes—they did not list a second choice and were set aside. If half of them had listed Palin, or a fairly small fraction of the minority who listed the Dem second had listed Palin instead, she would have won.
Begich got fewer votes in the first round voting in both elections (Special and Primary) making Begich the weaker candidate.
Ranked Choice Voting is Anti-Conservative rigged voting.
Look again, what I said is EXACTLY right.
11222 of Begich voters didn’t rank anyone second. So those votes were exhausted. These voters didn’t want a Democrat, but they also didn’t want Palin, so they didn’t rank anyone second. Those voters alone would have beat Pelota.
15445 of Begich’s voters hated Palin so bad that they actually put Pelota ahead of her.
27042 of Begich’s voters put Palin second.
Palin’s negatives cost us this race.
If Begich were in second, a much smaller portion of Palin’s voters would have ranked Pelota Second.
That was all the difference.
“Can we give it back to Russia”
Think Palin replacing Putin and let your imagination go wild.
It’s always fun watching the GOPe NPCs come out on these posts.
That's not how ranked voting works.
Peltola was the #2 choice for a significant number of Begich voters.
Do the math. Palin will lose against Pelota. Begich has a chance.
It took the morons long enough to figure out who they wanted to win.
Alaska’s At-Large Congressional District
Results
CANDIDATE
VOTES
PCT.
Mary Peltola
DEM
70,048
36.8%
Sarah Palin
GOP
57,486
30.2%
Nick Begich
GOP
49,833
26.2%
Tara Sweeney
GOP
7,142
3.8%
Palin beat Begich in the first round. Peltola only won 37% of the vote yet she won the seat thanks to ranked choice voting.
Nick Begich Jr. is the son of a former Alaska Dem congressman. From his site: “Nick recently completed a Fellowship with the Club for Growth, America’s leading free-enterprise, limited-government advocacy group.” He is not MAGA.
Murkowski engineered the move to rank choice voting to insure reelection. We will see what happens in Nov for the House seat when they do it all over again with three candidates this time. Greater turnout will affect the race. Maybe Begich should announce that his supporters should vote for Palin.
Begich needs to endorse and promote Sarah Palin that should fix it.
He was the weaker first choice candidate he needs to know his place its out.
The RCV system is wrong, dead wrong and rigged against Conservatives and in favor of those who talk out of both sides of their mouths to get everyone to like them.
Well, at least the Alaskans got the rankest choice that they could select. Idiots.
Wait, wait, wait...am I reading this data correctly? *only* Begich’s second choice votes were factored in, not Palin’s? So, theoretically, 100% of Palin’s second choice votes could have gone to Begich, it doesn’t matter, since he was “first” eliminated?
More people in total could have (possibly) voted for Begich under this system as first and second choice over the Democrat - indeed, possibly by a wide margin - but the second choice votes of Palin voters don’t count. This is indeed rigged...more of a garbage system than I had thought - some second choice votes count, but not others.
So TexasGurl is right on the money about how this played out and why. Some people’s second choice votes count more than others (actually some people’s second choice votes count not at all). I bet more, if not nearly all, of Palin’s voters cast votes for Begich as their second choice. If the way I am reading that document is correct.
It may be the only way to make this convoluted system workable at all, but it is absolute garbage. It is unfortunate Palin came in second since her second choice voters got no say in this as a result (and she’s as unpopular in the state as Joe Biden so it was unlikely she would be the second choice of others).
If I’m reading that document wrong please advise but that is what it looks like to me.
Yes, that’s how RCV works. The eliminated candidate’s votes get redistributed.
Palin’s do not.
THIS is NOT the way to run an election it is totally screwed up!!!
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