Posted on 11/10/2022 8:51:27 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Twenty-one year incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka advanced on Wednesday to the final found of ranked-choice tabulation after neither candidate reached the 50 percent threshold in the first round.
With 80 percent of the votes counted, Tshibaka leads the race with 44.3 percent. Murkowski is close behind at 42.8 percent, while Democrat candidate Pat Chesbro holds 9.5 percent.
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Dunleavy (Trump endorsed) won for Gov in Alaska on the same ballot. Ranked choice screws conservatives when it is a three way race with Conservative vs Moderate vs Dem, which happened both in the Senate and House race in Alaska.
The Alaska legislature needs to eliminate ranked-choice voting. Get that done, or vote out the supporters on the R side, or learn to play the game, that’s your choice.
I am unaware of a single time a conservative has won a ‘ranked voting’ ballot.
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If they do start winning ranked voting will disappear.
I’m in my 70s. I don’t have many years left. So, I’m watching all of this from a rather dispassionate perspective.
Can we still reverse course? Yes. But it becomes more difficult every year. And I’ll likely not live long enough to see it. Those who love this country, and its reason for being; and have fought long and hard to keep it from collapsing; are running out of time and are dying off. We are trying to pass the baton to subsequent generations, but those generations seem more reluctant to take the hand-off as the years pass. Maybe they think they are outnumbered; maybe they think the task is too daunting; or, worst of all, maybe they just don’t care.
But when my Maker finally calls me home, I can be content in the knowledge that I was never defeated.
I am not at all surprised with the direction this country is headed. Historically, great nations usually end up committing suicide. Oh, there will still be a body, barely alive, and not much more animated than a carcass; but the life force that had made it great is gone.
What a shame.
So that means you can vote for the same person twice? In a run-off, I can vote for the same person each time. I don’t think I can cast multiple votes for the same person in ranked-voting ... so that requires me to vote for someone I don’t really want ...
The RATS aren’t the only ones that rig elections.
As an example, Pat Toomey would have easily won re-election in PA.
As someone else pointed out, the Democrats will flock to Murkowski.
So that means you can vote for the same person twice? In a run-off, I can vote for the same person each time. I don’t think I can cast multiple votes for the same person in ranked-voting ... so that requires me to vote for someone I don’t really want ...
Your second choice only comes into play when your first choice is eliminated. Even if it was a separate runoff if the candidate you wanted was the one eliminated, you can’t vote for the same person each time. With RCV, your vote stays with the same person unless they’re eliminated, so yeah it is exactly the same.
I have come to believe it was invented by the Dems to ensure that they always win.
You don’t have to vote for the same person twice because ranked choice allows you to do the run off in the same election so you don’t have to run it again.
For example, had they had a ranked choice in GA, and the libertarian voters placed Walker 2nd on their choices. We would not need to do a run off, just add those vote to Walker and we have a winner.
I actually like the ranked choice, because it encourages voting for 3rd party candidates without fearing that you will “waste your vote”, which gives people more reason to vote 3rd party instead of having a 2 party domination.
You can vote for a constitutional party or libertarian party candidate knowing that you are still voting against the democrat as long as you place the republican candidate ahead of the democrat candidate.
It will tend to allow the most centrist of multiple candidates win, which hurts us in Alaska. But if broadly adopted it will also pull back many of the radically leftists on the Dem side.
Did China Mitch invent this system?
I bet all those rats chose the cow for their second choice.
ranked voting is rancid
with the hard swing seen in Hispanics voting republican..
I kinda wonder when Biden is going to finish the wall.
So, if Murkowski’s voters put Tsibaka as their second choice, and Tsibaka’s voters put Murkowski as their second choice, wouldn’t that make it a tie?
No. The only second-choice votes that are counted are from the voters who had the eliminated candidate as their first choice. Since Democrat Pat Chesbro has now been eliminated, whichever one (Murkowski or Tshibaka) his voters said was their second choice now gets those votes.
Who will Democrats vote for in this runoff?
“So that means you can vote for the same person twice?”
You don’t need to vote for the same person twice. Your vote will remain with your preferred candidate until they are eliminated or elected.
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