[Tea Drinker]

I have read how ranked voting works and flat out don’t understand the system. I think you need 50% of. It’s to win without the rank voting kicking in. If not, I don’t get how votes are redistributed.

Another red state screwing up elections for Republicans.

[Red Badger]

You can get the most votes and still lose.....................

[Flick Lives]

I have read how ranked voting works and flat out don’t understand the system.

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I’ve read and understood books on quantum physics. I’ve yet to read an intelligible explanation of Ranked Choice. In the end, it sounds like the election equivalent of Three Card Monte.

[PermaRag]

I've been posting on this topic here for months and months; it is very confusing (on purpose) and people -- including Alaska voters, who approved the damn thing -- still don't get it.

Rigged Choice Voting in Alaska

As far as the current election goes, both Democrats (yes, I count Murkowski as a Democrat) will win. Tshibaka will lead on the "first ballot". Then the Democrat votes will be allocated mostly to Murkowski (for obvious reasons) once the official Decmorat on the ballot is eliminated and the wicked old witch will win again. Without Rigged Choice Voting, she would have lost. Palin will lose again too.

What the GOP needs to figure out in situations like this is STOP SPLITTING THE DAMN VOTE! I like Sarah Palin, but she never should have jumped into the House race back in the spring. Begich, despite his last name being associated with his Democrat relatives, is a perfectly fine candidate and would have been a perfectly fine Representative. Far better than what they're stuck with now.