Results in Alaska’s congressional elections will not be decided until November 23 — two weeks after Election Day — thanks to the state’s new ranked-choice voting system, which delays the tabulation of second- and third-choice selections.
Twenty-one-year incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has said she will vote for Democrat House candidate Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) over Republican challenger former Gov. Sarah Palin.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) told Breitbart News editor Adrienne Ross on her eponymous podcast that “ranked choice voting” is an electoral mechanism designed to “elect Democrats and destroy our country.”
Democrat Mary Peltola defeated former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) in Alaska’s special election to fill its lone vacant congressional seat, despite not receiving more than 50 percent of the initial vote.
Kelly Tshibaka and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) advanced from Alaska’s open primary Tuesday, setting up a Republican Party proxy war in the ranked-choice general election contest.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) appeared to run away from a reporter’s question about her staff members’ involvement in changing state election law, as seen in a video released by Project Veritas.
Fundraising reports reveal that pro-ranked choice voting group Yes on 2 for Better Elections is funded primarily by “out-of-state billionaires.”
Maine lawmakers are considering legislation that would expand their current ranked-choice voting system to presidential elections.
A federal judge ruled against Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s (R-ME-02) constitutional challenge to Maine’s “rank voting” system (also known as “RCV,” or ranked-choice voting) on Thursday.
