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Repeal of Alaska’s ranked choice pulls ahead, as election results continue to come in
Alaska Public Media ^ | 11/6/24 | Liz Ruskin and Casey Grove

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at alaskapublic.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; elections
Mission accomplished. RCV was instituted specifically to protect Lisa Murkowski.

Nevertheless, it should go!

1 posted on 11/06/2024 4:26:23 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Ranked voting just another Leftest Scam


2 posted on 11/06/2024 4:27:16 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: cotton1706

It was complicated because voters had to rank “Yes,” “no” and “maybe.”


3 posted on 11/06/2024 4:28:23 PM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: cotton1706

Good. And Mary Pertola should be gone as well.

A good day for the Alaskans.


4 posted on 11/06/2024 4:31:11 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: cotton1706
Open primaries make no sense and should be banned everywhere.

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?

5 posted on 11/06/2024 4:46:34 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: cotton1706

I did not know it was even on the ballot in Alaska. I hope they get rid of it.


6 posted on 11/06/2024 5:06:47 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: cotton1706

I saw it more as an attempt to keep Sarah Palin out of office.


7 posted on 11/06/2024 5:07:56 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Murkowski will probably retire now.


8 posted on 11/06/2024 5:10:01 PM PST by Rlsau1
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To: Parley Baer

RCV is out. Big Outside Monet spent millions on ads that did them no good.


9 posted on 11/06/2024 5:34:49 PM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: cotton1706

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!


10 posted on 11/06/2024 5:47:37 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: cotton1706

Oregon rejected it. At least as of yesterday.


11 posted on 11/06/2024 5:51:29 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: cotton1706

“RCV was instituted specifically to protect Lisa Murkowski.
Nevertheless, it should go!”

So should Lisa.


12 posted on 11/06/2024 7:29:17 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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