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After Alaska, where ranked choice voting is headed next


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Washington Examiner

Alaska’s ranked choice voting system, used for the first time this year in the state’s primaries and a special congressional election, yielded a defeat for former Gov. Sarah Palin and confusion over the complicated practice.

Ranked choice voting allows voters to list a second choice and third choice (and beyond) on their ballots rather than forcing them to select one candidate.

 

Opponents of ranked choice voting argue the complex nature of calculating votes can too easily produce a winning candidate who does not reflect the will of the majority.

Interest in ranked choice voting has grown in recent years as more states and cities adopt the method.

 

In 2019, voters in New York City backed ranked choice voting, and the system endured its highest-profile test yet in the city’s mayoral primary last year.

A massive tabulation error that occurred in the second round of vote-counting shook confidence in the system, however. The New York City Board of Elections posted results from that round that suggested the third-place candidate on election night had leaped ahead by more votes than was mathematically possible, forcing the board to withdraw the results and admit to a mistake.

Several other cities plan to use ranked choice voting in future elections, including Boulder, Colorado; Amherst, Massachusetts; and Burlington, Vermont, according to FairVote, a group that advocates the system.:snip:

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Baked Alaskan: 60% of voters cast ballots for Republicans. A Democrat won.

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.:snip:

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Ranked Voting. Takes a Very Simple idea (Vote for the person you want. Count The Votes. 50%+1 Wins.) And complicates it. Something only a Democrat could love.

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