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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You know you are spouting the garbage from Dems regarding 2016 and 2000.
In other news water is wet. Why do they let these people do these crazy vote schemes. This one was stolen legally...
Trump can’t be blamed for this, and neither can Rat election corruption. This is something the Alaskan legislature specifically the Alaskan Republican party since they control the legislature did to themselves!
What was it Palin called them - “The Corrupt Old Boys\Girls Club”!
“You know you are spouting the garbage from Dems regarding 2016 and 2000.”
1) I think we should toss back the Dem’s and RINO’s talking points in their face as much as possible.
2) But, no I’m really not doing what you claim at all. Our election for president was set up by the Constitution to consist of a separate election within each state. There simply is no national election; hence, the national “popular vote” has nothing to do with “democracy.” A democratic vote, of course, only applies to actual elections and in the US the only actual elections we have are within each state.
This thread needs eye bleach or some kind of warning.
“I gather this is the last election Alaska has with this ridiculous and disastrous rank choice system.”
Do you have a source?
Ranked choice, early voting, harvesting could very well be a death knell for our country. Proves elections are a farce.
Mitch made it so they could help those leftest libs continue their agenda. Not surprising at all
Ranked choice elections need to be resolved within 48 hours of poll closing for me to accept its expansion. It’s ridiculous that elections in some states take 3 or 4 weeks to count.
Right, the forces of evil are hard at work stealing these slow count elections
Alaska Republicans are a disgrace!
The ranked choice voting system here in Alaska sucks. It is designed to deny the people’s choice and make it easier to cheat by deception.
Some big oil ex cuties donated to Murky
Ranked Choice Voting, aka the Murkowski Protection Act, succeeds.
Palin lost to the Democrat.
It's all such a rigged game it is astonishing that we have lasted even this long.
Enough Senate seats have been stolen for six year terms lately, that the Senate must be reformed as it is illegitimate. Only an Article V Convention of States will ever get that done. The Swamp will not reform itself.
All red states have to ban RCV, ballot harvesting, etc. The Marxist-Corportist alliance will use every tool they can use to sell our kids to the Chinese Communist Party.
Ranked Choice Voting, is voting twice for one office, and it is garbage.
We don’t have elections anymore. We need to fight to get them back.
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