Dead People Voting, Dirty Voter Rolls, Vote by Mail, 2000 Mules, Electronic Voting Machines, [S]election, now Ranked Choice Voting

It appears that politicians are intentionally finding multiple ways to make America’s elections less secure.

The idea of one voter one vote is becoming ancient history as we enter the 2022 midterm elections.

First we had dead people voting, voter rolls that have not expunged those who no longer live in a state, massive voting by mail, 2000 mules dropping off ballots non-government boxes, electronic voting machines, Chinese coding in electronic voting machines i.e. [s]election, and finally rank choice voting.

The Latest Scam—Rank Choice Voting

In ranked-choice voting, voters get to rank their candidates in order of preference. In other words, you can say who your first-choice candidate would be, followed by the next best candidate, and so on down the list. If a candidate receives more than half of the first-choice votes in the election, that candidate wins—exactly as they would in any other election. If there’s no majority winner (for instance, if the first-choice winner would only represent 43% of the total votes) then the race is decided by an “instant runoff.” Whichever candidate has the fewest votes is eliminated; voters who had chosen that candidate as their first choice have their second choice counted instead. This process goes on until a winner representing more than half of the vote emerges.

The Bongino Report reported,

What happens when you combine an all-in or “jungle” primary with ranked-choice voting in the general election? Putting the two modern “innovations” on elections together in Alaska produced this absurd result, in which Republicans lost a House seat despite getting 60% of the vote.

Democrat Mary Peltola, a former state representative, will be the first Alaska Native in Congress after she won a special election that included GOP candidates Nick Begich and former Gov. Sarah Palin, NBC News projects.

Peltola, who is the executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, served 10 years in the state Legislature and campaigned as “Alaska’s best shot at keeping an extremist from winning.”

“It is a GOOD DAY,” Peltola tweeted following the election results. “We’ve won tonight, but we’re still going to have to hold this seat in November.”

Given that the candidates will be the same, Peltola has a good chance of succeeding at it. This was a perfect storm of absurdity that produced an unrepresentative if still legally legitimate result. The problem here isn’t cheating — the result is legitimate. It’s the jury-rigged Alaska election system that’s absurd.

First off, Alaska has chosen to use all-in primaries instead of party primaries. Other states have adopted these as well, notably California, but they use those to narrow down the general election to a run-off between the top two vote-getters. Alaska puts the top four finishers on its general-election ballot, but requires a majority to win. Rather than use a subsequent runoff between the top two of the general election, Alaska requires voters to fill out second and third choices between the four candidates … and then goes through a ridiculous process to assign those ranked choices if one candidate doesn’t get 50% — which this system all but guarantees will happen. After several days of machinations, Alaska finally announces who won.

And in this case, the party that got 60% of the vote lost to the party that got 40% of the vote. Huh?

So there you have it. Republicans shot themselves in the foot when they allowed Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska. We agree with Dan Bongino that Alaska produced an absurd result!

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