Posted on 11/29/2022 11:34:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Alaska’s sole congressional seat, which had been in GOP hands for 49 years, was recently captured by Democrat Mary Peltola.
The victory has been touted by liberals as either vindication of their agenda or as portending the end of the career of Sarah Palin, Peltola’s most high-profile opponent. Yet the result, which took weeks to finalize, was easily explainable:
It was a function of Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting (RCV) and Top-four Primary (TFP) system — a system electoral engineers would like to institute nationwide.
In essence, this system created a situation in which Palin and another Republican, Nick Begich, were both running against Peltola in the general election and divided up the GOP vote.
Before explaining the real problem with RCV and TFP, let’s review what they are. Per Ballotpedia:
A ranked-choice voting system (RCV) is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, he...is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the next-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.
Then there’s the TFP, or, Top Four Primary, which “is a type of primary election in which all candidates are listed on the same primary ballot,” Ballotpedia also explains. “The top four vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election. Consequently, it is possible for four candidates belonging to the same political party to win in a top-four primary and face off in the general election.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Then your ballot is tossed. RCV is thoroughly unconstitutional.
Only the voters for the least popular candidate get a second vote.
-PJ
I guess my sincere question is who was the Republican candidate first, and who joined second to dilute the Republican vote, while the Dems kept only one candidate in the race?
Regardless of the answer, one of them should have dropped out. The Democrats are disciplined and play for keeps. Republicans are too petty to keep their eyes on the prize.
“I’ll take “It’s voter fraud” for $200.00 Alex.”
What are you talking about? That stooge Begich should have dropped out. Palin received more votes in round one. Begich is a Rat from a generational Rat family. He was in the race to sabotage Palin and give the race to the Dems.
The Begich family is like the Bush family. They have had their tentacles all over Alaska and Minnesota politics for decades. They were Democrats and then when it became politically convenient they switched to Republican. This was done solely for political expediency.
The Begich family think they own Alaska politics. They even have members of the family living in Washington DC as profesional lobbyists. They are as equally bad as the Bush clan. Begich is part of the Deep State.
Nick Begich's father Nick Sr. was the Democrat killed when he and Democrat House Majority Leader Hale Boggs (Cokie Roberts's father) disappeared in a small plane in Alaska in 1972. They were never found. The Begich, Murkowski, and Young families have owned Alaska politics for decades. At least the Democrat who beat Sarah is not one of the insiders.
So you won’t be voting anymore...is that your position..??
And Rudy Giuliani was once "America's Mayor."
Neither could get elected anywhere today.
Life happens.
And Peltola would've still won.
That's how RCV works. Begich was #2 for many Pelota voters, who herself was #2 for many Begich voters.
Sarah Palin was the spoiler.
It is certainly not an “instant runoff.”
My casual observations have shown me that recounts in standard elections rarely show a different candidate winning (but yes, occasionally they do), but almost never are the vote totals exactly the same the second time around.
Not so with RCV.
Thanks for the good background information. Appreciate it.
plus 4000+ Begich Repubs voted for Peltola in the next Ranked Choice round.
actually 7460 Begich Repubs voted for Peltola
Update...
Note to Alaska: You’d better get rid of early voting, mail in voting, no-excuses absentee, and RCV-enabled voting machines while you’re at it...
Or this is a a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
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