Posted on 11/23/2022 5:31:54 PM PST by FarCenter
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won re-election in Alaska, dealing former President Donald Trump another loss in what has largely been a miserable midterm cycle for his hand-picked candidates in competitive Senate races.
Murkowski, one of only seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial, survived a challenge from Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka, a former Alaska Department of Administration commissioner, in the state’s first Senate election to be decided by ranked-choice voting.
Rather than limiting voters to one choice, the format allows for candidates to be ranked in order of preference. Neither Murkowski nor Tshibaka, the top two-vote getters in the first round of the Nov. 8 general election, had a majority after first choices were tabulated, triggering runoff rounds Wednesday in which ballots listing eliminated candidates were reallocated to the voter’s next choices.
Murkowski, Tshibaka, Democrat Patricia Chesbro and Republican Buzz Kelley all advanced from a nonpartisan August primary. Kelley later dropped out and endorsed Tshibaka, but he remained on the ballot. Wednesday’s runoff began with the second-choice votes from those who preferred the last-place Kelley being dispersed among the remaining three candidates. Chesbro was eliminated next, and the second-choice votes from her ballots helped put Murkowski over the threshold.
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RANK CHOICE ANOTHER WAY TO STEAL AN ELECTION
I don’t get how the result is any different without ranked choice. Moocow won on the first round, too.
“Do you have a source?”
No itis just obvious.
“No itis just obvious.”
More like wishful thinking.
The opposite is actually true, more states are going that way.... And I actually have a source.
https://ivn.us/posts/ranked-choice-voting-emerges-more-states-after-midterm-elections
These locations are liberal enclaves which tells the story. Alaska is Repubican and I think they will surely repeal it as a mistake.
OK, the last I had heard Tshibaka was up by a few points, but I see that 10 days after the election, Murkowski took a slight lead in the first round.
Regardless, I still think rank choice voting is ridiculous based on principle. I find it amazing the lengths the Dems and RINOs will go to give themselves any advantage their imaginations can think up. And it is embarrassing how long Alaska takes to count votes. Most third-world countries do it much better. I know there are people in wilderness areas but that’s not where most of the residents are, and winners should be declared much more rapidly unless the margins are very tight.
Oh wait that's right, only 5 candidates even asked for his endorsement. LOFL.
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won re-election in Alaska, dealing former President Donald Trump another loss in what has largely been a miserable midterm cycle for his hand-picked candidates in competitive Senate races."
It’s a small club and we ain’t members.
McConnell wins and America loses.
1 man 1 vote means nothing in Alaska.
You vote and it can go to anyone but who you want.
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