Posted on 11/06/2024 4:26:23 PM PST by cotton1706
Ballot Measure 2, the effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting and open primaries, was winning slightly as election results continued to come in early Wednesday, with about 93% of Alaska precincts counted.
Wednesday results showed Ballot Measure 2 ahead by 4,703 votes, out of a total of more than 254,000 ballots cast. That’s a margin of about 2 percentage points.
The other initiative on Alaska voters’ ballots, to increase the state’s minimum wage, appeared headed to victory, with a margin of 13 percentage points.
Loren Leman, a former Republican lieutenant governor who worked with the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries, pointed to the Ballot Measure 2 campaign being outspent 100-to-1.
“I think just the very fact that the numbers are that close, even after they spent all the money, says that Alaskans don’t really want the complexities of ranked choice voting, and it’s confusing to a lot of people and it’s unnecessary,” Leman said.
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Nevertheless, it should go!
Ranked voting just another Leftest Scam
It was complicated because voters had to rank “Yes,” “no” and “maybe.”
Good. And Mary Pertola should be gone as well.
A good day for the Alaskans.
It's as if a Catholic parish had an opening for a priest, and local Protestants, atheists, and anyone else demanded to have a say in whom the parish recruited for a new priest. Or if a college atheist club had an election that was swamped with non-member theists insisting on voting for the atheist leadership.
It is organizations themselves that should be able to set their own rules about how they want to select leaders and representatives, without outside interference. If they want to include non-members in some fashion in voting that is fine, but the organization itself should define that, not a 3rd party. In politics the candidate thus selected then has to run in the general election where everyone gets their say, so why let non-members have a say twice on a candidate, both at the primary level and in the general election?
I did not know it was even on the ballot in Alaska. I hope they get rid of it.
I saw it more as an attempt to keep Sarah Palin out of office.
Murkowski will probably retire now.
RCV is out. Big Outside Monet spent millions on ads that did them no good.
If Alaska votes that system out, first, it’ll be one of the smartest things that state has done in recent memory, two, it’ll spell the end of Murkowski. Please let it be so!
Oregon rejected it. At least as of yesterday.
“RCV was instituted specifically to protect Lisa Murkowski.
Nevertheless, it should go!”
So should Lisa.
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