{"id":1630727,"date":"2022-09-02T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630727"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:34:41","slug":"republicans-issue-statements-against-ranked-choice-voting-after-alaska-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-issue-statements-against-ranked-choice-voting-after-alaska-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Issue Statements Against Ranked Choice Voting After Alaska Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-issue-statements-against-ranked-choice-voting-after-alaska-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630727&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican lawmakers have taken aim at the\u00a0ranked choice system used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alaska\">Alaska<\/a> after former governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sarah-palin\">Sarah Palin<\/a>\u00a0lost to Democrat Mary Peltola on Wednesday in a special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election\">election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peltola, a former state lawmaker, defeated Palin\u00a0by three percentage points at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sarah-palin-loses-special-election-to-fill-alaska-house-seat_4703563.html\">51.47 percent<\/a> to fill Alaska\u2019s only U.S. House seat.\u00a0Palin received 48.53 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The results mean that\u00a0Peltola will finish the remainder of the term of Republican Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), whose seat was left vacant after\u00a0died in March this year.\u00a0Young\u2019s term\u00a0expires at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0GOP lawmakers took to social media this week to slam\u00a0the voting system used in the election, with some calling it a \u201cscam\u201d that \u201cdisenfranchises voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRanked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections,\u201d Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomcottonar\/status\/1565139540834222080?s=27&amp;t=pv2VntwJ1sVWzJzUsMt8Dw\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter after Wednesday\u2019s results. \u201c60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion\u2014which disenfranchises voters\u2014a Democrat \u2018won.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee (RNC) national press secretary Emma Vaughn said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/3624553-republicans-rage-against-ranked-choice-voting-after-alaska-election\/\">statement<\/a> to The Hill that the Alaska special election results \u201cprove what we\u2019ve known all along\u2014ranked-choice voting disenfranchises voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Republican nominees earned nearly 60% of Alaskans\u2019 votes on the ballot, and now every single one of those voters lost their voice to choose their representative in Congress. Alaskans deserve an equal and fair process, two things this special election were not,\u201d Vaughn said.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018System is Convoluted, Confusing\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The voting system used in Alaska allows voters to\u00a0list candidates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcvresources.org\/how-it-works\">order of preference<\/a> on the ballot. If a candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, he or she is\u00a0declared the winner.\u00a0If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, then the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday marked the first time that\u00a0Alaskans used the ranked-choice system after voting to adopt it in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Alaska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers have taken aim at the\u00a0ranked choice system used in Alaska after former governor Sarah Palin\u00a0lost to Democrat Mary Peltola on Wednesday in a special election. Peltola, a former state lawmaker, defeated Palin\u00a0by three percentage points at 51.47 percent to fill Alaska\u2019s only U.S. House seat.\u00a0Palin received 48.53 percent. 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