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  • The problem with ranked-choice voting: The voting method that did Sarah Palin in

    02/13/2023 9:42:08 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/12/2023 | Thomas Buckley
    Ranked choice voting is the answer to a question only a bureaucrat would even think to ask. To simplify, RCV is a voting method used most recently in the 2022 Alaskan congressional election which Sarah Palin notoriously lost -- that in theory blurps out a winner that is actually (really really trust us on this) the most representative of the wishes of the electorate. This magic trick is accomplished by people voting for their first choice, second, etc. and then the numbers are added up and moved about and cut and pasted and then the registrar of voters announces a...
  • Democrat Mary Peltola wins special U.S. House election, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress

    08/31/2022 6:45:00 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 26 replies
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 31, 2022 | Iris Samuels
    Democrat Mary Peltola was the apparent winner of Alaska’s special U.S. House race and is set to become the first Alaska Native in Congress, after votes were tabulated Wednesday in the state’s first ranked choice election. Peltola led Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin after ballots were tallied and votes for third-place GOP candidate Nick Begich III were redistributed to his supporters’ second choices. Peltola, a Yup’ik former state lawmaker who calls Bethel home, is now slated to be the first woman to hold Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat.
  • New York City to adopt ranked-choice voting

    11/05/2019 8:37:19 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 35 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11 05 2019 | Tal Axelrod
    New York City on Tuesday became the latest and largest city in the nation to adopt ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank their top five candidates based on preference. New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved Ballot Question 1 by a roughly 73 to 17 percent margin, with just over 77 percent of precincts reporting. The ballot’s passage will allow the city’s voters to begin using ranked-choice voting in local primary and special elections starting in 2021. The method allows voters to rank their top five candidates in order of preference rather than picking just one contender. If a candidate wins an...
  • Gov. Mills allows ranked-choice voting in Maine’s presidential elections ME

    09/06/2019 2:19:39 PM PDT · by Chickensoup · 36 replies
    Portland Press Herald ^ | 09.06.19 | SCOTT THISTLESTAFF WRITER
    Gov. Janet Mills said she will allow Maine to become the first state in the country to use ranked-choice voting in presidential elections by letting the legislation to go into effect without her signature. However, by not signing the bill and instead releasing it without a signature, the law will not take effect in time for ranked-choice voting to be used in the presidential primary in March. In her memo to the Legislature released Friday afternoon Mills said she was not signing the bill, in part, because lawmakers had failed to allocate money to cover the additional expense and she...
  • Rank choice?

    01/29/2019 5:26:05 PM PST · by originalbuckeye · 22 replies
    Vanity | 1/29/19 | Originalbuckeye
    Just watching Dr Jill Stein on Tucker and she was commenting on Starbucks’ Shultz announcing a Presidential run. She said ‘we are no longer constrained by the two party system, you just have to pass ‘Rank Choice’. Maine has passed Rank Choice and it cost the Republicans a House seat. The Republican had the most votes, but those who voted for the 3rd party candidate could say who they wanted if the 3rd party candidate didn’t win. And of course, their second choice was the Dem. So, with those ‘second choice’ votes added in, the Dem was awarded the win.