I live in Maine’s Second Congressional district....Trump country.
Jared Golden, an Afghan war veteran, is no “moderate.”
He is a liberal, and he recently praised Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.
Because of rank choice voting, Golden “won” the election in 2018, even though the Republican incumbent, Bruce Poliquin, received 2200 more votes.
The “winning” candidate had to have 50% plus one vote, and the votes for the two additional candidates in the race.....ringers..... were allocated to Golden after additional rounds of “counting.”
“The “winning” candidate had to have 50% plus one vote, and the votes for the two additional candidates in the race.....ringers..... were allocated to Golden after additional rounds of “counting.”
Which of course is exactly the same formula which Murkowski is going to benefit from to get re-elected in Alaska in 2022. The actual Republican in the race will never get to 50% plus 1 in the first round (nor will anyone else), but she’ll have a plurality, just like Poliquin in Maine did in 2018.
Then the “ranked choice” voting system will kick in, and the voters who originally select the Democrat or the Losertarian will have The Cow ranked as their #2 choice and Kelly Tshibaka will lose. This is the first time this scheme is being used in Alaska, but once Democrats see how well this rigged game works they will implement it in more and more states.
They already have something similar in Washington and California, plus ballot harvesting too, which pretty much means that if you didn’t vote in a particular election the Democrat vote counters can simply decide that you meant to vote for their guy and they’ll “harvest” your ballot for you whether you know it or not.
I’m your neighbor and agree, that ranked-choice crap was and is a scam. Poliquin is running again, hope we get him back in! Golden is a snake in the grass libtard, to be sure.