Due to a bizarre new voting rule in Alaska—a Scam to Rig Elections—Sarah Palin lost a congressional race having garnered nearly 60% of the vote. Seriously!
But Republicans knew the bizarre rules going into this special election and chose to proceed.
This from westernjournal.com.
National Republicans are assailing ranked-choice voting after a democrat communist won an Alaska congressional election in which 58.7 percent of voters cast a ballot for a GOP candidate.
According to the New York Times:
[Communist] Mary Peltola won the state’s special election for its at-large congressional district on Wednesday—despite winning [only] 39.7 percent of the vote in the first round of the election.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin advanced to the second round, eliminating Republican Nick Begich. Peltola was the only communist in the race.
Under Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, voters designate candidates by order of preference. Second-choice votes are used to decide elections in which no candidate secures 50 percent of the vote.
Peltola won enough second-choice votes from Begich voters to defeat Palin. Even as Palin gained 27,659 votes in the second round, the 16,399 votes her opponent gained proved enough to win the election by a 3 percent margin.
The Arkansas conservative argued:
Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections.
He continued:
60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion—which disenfranchises voters—a Democrat ‘won.’
Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) September 1, 2022
More than 11,000 Begich voters declined to list a second choice on their ballots.
Peltola appears to have won, although results remain unofficial pic.twitter.com/4a57jItaH8
— Geoffrey Skelley (@geoffreyvs) September 1, 2022
According to the Washington Examiner:
Palin herself has criticized Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system as “crazy, convoluted [and] confusing.
The at-large congressional district in question had been represented by Republican Don Young for nearly 50 years before his death in March, according to Ballotpedia.
Peltola’s election represents the first time Alaskans have voted under the new ranked-choice voting system.
Fortunately, Alaskans will be granted a Do-Over, of sorts.
According to Forbes:
Both Palin and Begich will face Peltola again in Alaska’s November general election.
Palin called on Begich to drop out of the November race after Peltola’s Wednesday victory.
Final thoughts: Devising new convoluted ways to cheat must provide full-time jobs for teams of communists. What are the odds Soros money has infected politics in Alaska? And don’t doubt that Begich has been financially encouraged not to drop out of the November election.
